Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Typhodium typhinum (Pers.) Seaver, Mycologia 2 : 86. 1910
Sphaeria typhina Pers. Ic. Descr. Fung. 21. 1798. Sphaerta spiculifera Sow. Bngl. Fungi ^/, 274. 1800. Dothidea iyphtna Fries, Syst. Myc. 2 : 553. 1823. Stromatosphaeria typhina Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. pi. 204. 1825. Lordyceps typhtna Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 381. 1849. Eptchloe typhtna Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 13: 18. 1860. Sphaceha typhina Sacc. Michelia 2 : 297. 1881.
Stromata effuse, subfleshy, at first pale, becoming bright-orange, forming sheaths 2-5 cm. in length, about the stems of various grasses; conidia ellipsoid, hyaline, 4-5 X 3 /i; perithecia thickly scattered, partially to entirely immersed, soft, membranaceous, similar in color to the stroma, with a rather prominent ostiolum ; asci cylindric, very long, 8-spored ; spores nearly as long as the ascus, in a close fascicle, about lii in diameter, many-septate.
On living grasses, of various genera. Type locality : Kurope.
Distribution : New York to Washington and Mexico ; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- Fred Jay Seaver, Helen Letitia Palliser, David Griffiths. 1910. HYPOCREALES, FIMETARIALES. North American flora. vol 3(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
