Chlorovibrissea bicolor
Synonyms
Vibrissea bicolor G.W.Beaton & Weste
Family
Vibrisseaceae, Ascomycetes
Flora category
Fungi – Native
Distribution
Westland, Australia (Victoria)
Detailed description
The apothecia are superficial, stipitate, scattered or in swarms, not confluent, up to 10 mm high. The fertile head is subglobose or lobed, up to 4 mm diameter. It is yellow when fresh, drying grey-black, but recovering to slightly darker yellow when soaked. The head is totally covered with the hymenium except where the stalk is inserted in an umbilicis. The stalk is up to 1 mm thick, tough and rather stiff when fresh, cylindrical with a small mycelial pad at the point of attachment. It is dark green when fresh, drying black and remaining so, finely scurfy. The asci, which are cylindrical with a tapering stalk, are 132–155 x 5–6.5 µm and contain 8 spores. The ascospores are filiform, thinner at one end, 53–60 x 1.5–2 µm, and contain numerous oil drops; no septation was seen.
Fruiting
April
Substrate
On decorticated wood.
Where held
MELU (holotype), PDD
Extant collections
1 (NZ)
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