Sporormiella herculea (Ellis & Everh.) S. I. Ahmed & Cain 1972

Sporormia herculea Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 135. 1892
Perithecia sunken, scattered, with a projecting, black, cylindric beak which terminates in an enlarged, black, warty, irregularly expanded or even forked extremity, about 440550// in diameter, globose, membranaceous to coriaceous, sometimes inclined to be brittle, black and opaque ; asci 8-spored, clavate or slightly fusiform, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, quite persistent, 45-60 X 225-300 fi ; paraphyses filiform, abundant, septate, slightly constricted below, longer than the asci and mixed with them; spores obliquely 2-3-seriate, 10-1 5 -septate, cylindric to very slightly fusiform, rounded or subacute at the ends, deeply constricted and easily separable into individual cells, 18-21 X 135-150^, the second to the fifth cell from above in the upper spore of ascus being much larger than any of the others; ordinary cells 13-16X16-21//; large cell about 18 X24//, ranging from hyaline and decidedly fusiform when young through yellow to dark-brown, opaque and cylindric.
On dung of cows and horses. Type locality : Newfield, New Jersey. Distribution : Rhode Island to Texas.