Sporormia chrysospora Griffiths 1901

Sporormia chrysospora D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11 : 108. 1901
Perithecia scattered, sunken, or aggregate in small clusters and erumpent, becoming more or less free at maturity, globose with a short, black, bare, papilliform beak (or the beak may be entirely absent, when the perithecium is simply perforate), 225-300 /^ in diameter, thin, membranaceous or often inclined to be brittle, black and opaque ; asci 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a short, bluiit stipe, persistent, 10-12 X 65-95 {i ; paraphyses filiform, septate, scant, mixed with the asci and about equal to them in length ; spores 2-seriate, narrowly ellipsoid, slightly wider above than below, rounded at the ends, 5-7 X 21-24 /i, 3-septate with shallow constrictions, not easily separable, light-yellow when mature ; hyaline envelope narrow and often indistinct.
On rabbit dung.
Type locality : Decorah, Iowa.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.