Podospora taenioides (Griffiths) Cain 1962

Pleurage taenioides D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11 : 58. 1901
Sordaria taenioides Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17 : 602. 1905.
Perithecia scattered, half sunken, or occasionally aggregate in small clusters and erumpent between the fibers of the substratum, about 0.5X0,75 mm., slightly olivaceous when young, but becoming black, opaque and slightly coriaceous at maturity, covered uniformly on all exposed portions by short, straight, septate, brown, hyalinetipped, fugacious hairs, globose to pyriform with a long, cylindric, curved or twisted beak ; asci 4-spored, cylindric, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a long, slender, crooked stipe, persistent, 37-45X290-360//; paraphyses filiform to tubular or even slightly ventricose below, tapering upward, septate, longer than the asci ; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid to ovoid, broadly rounded at the ends, ranging in color from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque, 29-32 X' 56-62 /i; primary appendage reduced to a minute, hyaline or often slightly colored apiculus at lower end of the spore, the lower secondary appendage gelatinous, very long, attached apical ly to the spore and inclosing the minute apiculus, easily resolved into 2 closely united portions which appear to lose their individuality distally, more or less of the length being thrown into convolutions resembling segments of the tapeworm ; upper appendage slightly smaller than the lower and eccentrically attached.
On dung of horses, cows, rabbits, burros, dogs, and sheep.
Type locality : New York City.
Distribution : Rhode Island to South Dakota, Arizona, and Alabama.