Halosarpheia fibrosa Kohlm. & E. Kohlm. 1977

Egypt.

Ascomata. Obpyriform to subglobose, immersed or partly immersed, 380-440 μm high, 340-450 μm diam., ostiolate, papillate, coriaceous, brown to black, immersed part lighter coloured than the exposed neck and top; peridium 40-60 μm thick, two-layered, forming a textura angularis; outer stratum composed of 2 or 3 layers of polygonal or subglobose dark or light brown cells with large lumina; inner stratum composed of 7 to 10 layers of elongated, colourless cells with narrow lumina, merging with the pseudoparenchyma of the venter; ascocarps sometimes covered by brown hyphae; necks 140-350 μm long, 130-200 μm diam. at the base, 90-110 μm diam. at the apex, subconical to cylindrical; ostiolar canal periphysate; periphyses 15-35 × 2-3 μm. Asci. Clavate, pedunculate, 160-220 × 34-46 μm, 8-spored, unitunicate, thick-walled below the apex, thin-walled in the peduncle, persistent, without apical apparatus, developing at the base of the ascocarp venter on a small-celled ascogenous tissue that is separated from the peridium by thin-walled, polygonal cells of the sterile pseudoparenchyma, maturing successively, breaking off basally from the ascogenous tissue without releasing the ascospores, and ascospore dispersal not observed to date. Ascospores. Broad ellipsoidal, 32-44 × 18-24 μm (excluding appendages), 1-septate, not narrower at the septum, colourless, with apical appendages; appendages are remnants of the exospore; one caplike, stiff, and homogenous appendage is attached to each ascospore apex, 3-5 μm thick, 6-8 (-11) μm diam., at maturity becoming soft and scooplike, eventually transforming into a coil of delicate fibres that uncoil and form long, sticky filaments, 0.5-1 μm diam. Pseudoparaphyses. Composed of thin-walled, large, polygonal cells filling the venter of young ascocarps before the development ascogenous cells, breaking up to form "catenophyses" which merge apically with periphyses.

Halosarpheia fibrosa je grzib, co go ôpisoł Kohlm. & E. Kohlm. 1977. Halosarpheia fibrosa nŏleży do zorty Halosarpheia i familije Halosphaeriaceae. Żŏdne podgatōnki niy sōm wymianowane we Catalogue of Life.