Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Chromocreopsis hirsuta (Ellis & Ev.) Seaver,
Mycologia 2: 64. 1910.
Hypocrea hirsuta Ellis & Ev.; C. I^. Smith, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa 2 : 397. 1893.
Stromata gregarious or crowded, subhemispheric, coriaceous-car nose, 2-3 mm. in diameter, discoid, obsoletely margined, brown, yellowishwhite within, contracted below, centrally attached, clothed with brown, bristle-like, septate hairs 100-200X4/^, convex or plane above and slightly roughened by the necks of the perithecia ; perithecia buried in the stroma, ovoid, about 5 mm. high ; asci clavate-cylindric, swollen at the tip, 100 X 10 A^; spores navicular-oblong or unequally ellipsoid, brown, 7-8 X 3-3.5/^.
On bark.
Type locality : Omet^pe, Nicaragua.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
