Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hypomyces chrysospermus (Bull.) Tul. Ann. Sci
Nat. IV. 13 : 16. 1860.
Reticularia chrysosperma Bull. Herb. Vt. pi. 476, f. 4. 1789. Mucor chrysospermus Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. 1 : 99. 1791. Uredo mycophila Pers. Obs. Myc. 1 : 16. 1796. Sepedonium. chrysosperm.um Fries, Syst. Myc. 3 : 438. 1832. Hypomyces boletmus Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 75 : 15. 1904.
Stromata consisting of a golden or lemon-yellow powdery mass which covers the substratum often for several cm.; conidia globose, golden-^ellow, beautifully but delicately echinulate, 15-18 // in diameter; perithecia gregarious or thickly crowded, nestling in the yellow subiculum, reddish or reddish-brown ; asci cylindric ; spores 1-seriate with the ends overlapping in the ascus, fusiform, mostly curved, and becoming, when mature, slightly rough, 1-septate, with the septum near the basal end, dividing the spore into two unequal cells, 12-15 X 4-/«.
On species of Boletus, Type locality : France.
Distribution : Connecticut to Virginia, Wisconsin, and Colorado ; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- Fred Jay Seaver, Helen Letitia Palliser, David Griffiths. 1910. HYPOCREALES, FIMETARIALES. North American flora. vol 3(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
