Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Calonectria melioloides Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 19: 41. 1885
"} Calonectria guarapiensis Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 19: 41. 1885.
Plants gregarious and surrounded by an evanescent, white mycelial growth consisting of delicate radiating hyphae ; perithecia subglobose to ovoid, 200-250 // in diameter, with the wall composed of irregular cells 5-8 fi. in diameter, clothed with a few rigid, hyaline, many-septate hairs with a bulbous base ; hairs 7-8 ^i in diameter and 200-400 ii long ; asci clavate, 80-100 X 12-15 /^ ; spores 2-seriate or irregularlv crowded, fusiform, 3-septate, hyaline, 30-35 X 7-8 /i.
On the mycelium of Meliola on living leaves.
Type locality : Brazil.
Distribution : Louisiana ; also in South America.
- 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
