Torpedospora radiata Meyers 1957

Conocarpus erectus; Hibiscus tiliaceus; Palmae sp.; Pinus sp.; Plantae sp.; Thalassia testudinum.

American Virgin Islands; British Isles; Egypt; Martinique; Mexico; Trinidad & Tobago; USA (Florida).

Colonies. Comprising ascomata singly or in groups in or on wood. Anamorph. Not observed. Ascomata. Subglobose, immersed or superficial, ostiolate, papillate, dark brown, gray, brownish to almost colourless, (75-) 100-340 μm high, 100-360 μm diam., with a wall 15-25 μm thick composed of two layers; outer layer comprising subglobose, thick-walled cells with small lumina; inner layer comprising elongate, thick-walled cells with larger lumina; ostiolar neck cylindrical, up to 225 μm long 18-32 μm diam., the ostiolar canal at first filled with small, thin-walled cells forming a textura globulosa. Asci. Developing from the inner wall of the ascomatal lower half, eight-spored, clavate or oblong-ellipsoidal, sessile or short-stalked, thin-walled, with only one functional wall layer visible with the light microscope, 103-180 × 12-16 μm, with no apical apparatus, rapidly becoming increasingly hard to see. Ascospores. Colourless, cylindrical or clavate, broader at the apex, 3-septate rarely with more septa, not or slightly narrower at the septa, 30.5-52 × 4-5 μm excluding appendages; appendages numbering three or four, rarely five, radiating from the spore's lower end, semirigid, straight or slightly curved, with a thick base, 19-39.5 × 1.5-4.5 μm, tapering toward the apex, with a skeleton of parallel fibrils observable with the electron microscope and sometimes also the light microscope. Paraphyses. Septate, growing irregularly throughout the ascomatal venter, 0.7-1.3 μm diam.

Torpedospora radiata je grzib, co go ôpisoł Meyers 1957. Torpedospora radiata nŏleży do zorty Torpedospora, klasy Sordariomycetes, grōmady Ascomycota i krōlestwa grzibōw. Żŏdne podgatōnki niy sōm wymianowane we Catalogue of Life.