Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cribraria piriformis Schrad. Nov. Gen. PL 4. 1797
Cribraria intermedia Schrad. Nov. Gen. PI. 4. 1797.
Sporangia gregarious, stipitate, 0.3-0.6 mm. in diameter, turbinate or pyriform to globose, erect, purplish-brown; stalk comparatively short, 0.5-0.7 mm. long, tapering upward, longitudinally furrowed, purple or brown; cup very well defined, occupying one-third of the sporangium, ribbed and marked with minute granular lines, flattened or even umbilicate below, the
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margin denticulate, dusky brown; net simple, the meshes large, triangular, with few free ends, the nodes thickened, slightly convex or flat, studded with large, dark granules up to 2.5 u in diameter; spores dull yellow-brown in mass, pale ochraceous or salmon-tinted by transmitted light, with distinct, pallid warts, 5-7 fi in diameter.
Type locality: Germany.
Habitat: Dead coniferous wood.
Distribution: Widely distributed in North America, particularly in mountainous regions, but not common; Europe; Japan.
- bibliographic citation
- George Willard Martin, Harold William Rickett. 1949. FUNGI; MYXOMYCETES; CERATIOMYXALES, LICEALES, TEICHIALES, STEMONITALES, PHYSARALES. North American flora. vol 1. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
