Podospora decipiens (G. Winter) Niessl 1883

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Bos taurus (domestic)
Other: major host/prey

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Equus caballus
Other: major host/prey

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Cervidae
Other: minor host/prey

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Oryctolagus cuniculus
Other: minor host/prey

Pleurage decipiens (Wint.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3' : 505. 1898
Sordaria decipiens Wint.; Fuckel, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. 27-28: 44. 1873. Eusordaria decipiens Zopf, Zeits. Naturw. 56 : 547. 1883. Podospora decipiens Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fl. V: 173. 1884.
Perithecia pyriform, sunken in the substratum, scattered, 300-450X575-750^; walls thin, membranaceous, black above and greenish below, often so transparent that the asci and spores can be indistinctly seen by transmitted light ; beak moderately long, straight or curved and often roughened above by a few short papillae; rhizoids abundant and extending up to the projecting, usually curved, black beak ; asci 8-spored, clavate, rounded above and contracted below into a pedicel of medium length, evanescent, 40-55 X 180-240/i ; paraphyses long, ventricose, septate, agglutinate, abundant, but not much mixed with the asci ; spores 2-seriate, ellipsoid to ovoid, slightly wider below the middle, 20-24 X 38-54 /i, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque ; germpore large, apical and excentric ; lower end of spore terminated by a long cylindric primary appendage, 1-1.5 times the length of the spore, the base of this appendage being surrounded by short, gelatinous, secondary appendages, while the apex of the spore is crowned by a lyre-shaped tuft of similar consistency.
On dung of cows, horses, sheep, prairie-dogs, rabbits, and dogs.
tjt^'Sit'^tttionVermont to Montana, Arizona, and Alabama; also in Europe.

Podospora decipiens is a species of coprophilous fungus in the family Podosporaceae. It is especially common on the islands around Greece, where it grows on the dung of sheep, goats and donkeys.

Podospora decipiens je grzib, co go nojprzōd ôpisoł G. Winter ex Fuckel, a terŏźnõ nazwã doł mu Gustav Niessl von Mayendorf 1883. Podospora decipiens nŏleży do zorty Podospora i familije Lasiosphaeriaceae.