Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Nectriella peponum (Berk. & Curt.) Seaver,
Mycologia 1 : 46. 1909.
NeclHa Perpusilla Berk. & Curt.; Rav. Fungi Car. 4:5/; hyponym. 1855. Not N. perpusilla Nectria Peponum Berk. & Curt. ; Berk. Grevillea 4 : 16. 1875.
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, at first covered by the thin epidermis, becoming subsuperficial, but nestling in minute cavities in the substratum, ovoid, with a prominent, obtuse ostiolum, 175X200//, bright-red, nearly scarlet, the component cells of the perithecial wall distinct, 5;" in diameter; asci clavate, 35^0 X 5-6 /*; spores 1-septate, fusoid, hyaline, 10X4 ,«.
On dead gourds.
Type locality: South Carolina.
Distribution : North Carolina and South Carolina.
- 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
