Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Nectria episphaeria (Tode) Fries, Summa Veg
Scand. 388. 1849.
Sphaeria episphaeria Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2 : 21. 1791. Nectria tnicrospora Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 5 : 53. 1876.
Perithecia gregarious or scattered, superficial, subovoid, for the most part bilaterally collapsing when dry, smooth, blood-red, variable in size, 150-250^ in diameter ; perithecial wall composed of rather coarse cells ; asci cylindric, 60 X 5 ,«, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, broad-fusoid, 4-6X9-12 (mostly 5X10)//, 1-septate, hyaline.
On old fungi of various kinds, especially sphaeriaceous fungi. Type locality : Mecklenburg, Germany.
Distribution : New York to North Dakota, California, and Nicaragua ; 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
