Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pleurage dakotensis D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11 : 87. 1901
Philocopra dakotensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17 : 607. 1905.
Perithecia scattered, superficial or with the base slightly sunken, pyriform with papilliform to conic, curved beak, about 375-600/^, thin, membranaceous, fuscous, transparent, and covered, especially above, by tufts of agglutinate obliquely-septate fuscous hairs ; asci 32spored, clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a short, stipitate base, rather persistent, 30-40 X 175-220 // ; paraphyses slightly ventricose, septate, longer than the asci, but not mixed with them ; spores in 2-4 series, ellipsoid to slightly ovoid, rounded at the ends, 12-15X18-23//, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque.; primary appendage short, cylindric, straight and fugacious; secondary appendages tipping the primary and the apex of the spore, long, lash-like and very fugacious.
On dung of cows and rabbits ; also on dead stems of Salsola Tragus I^. Type locality : Brookings, South Dakota.
Distribution : New Jersey to South Dakota, Texas, and Alabama.
- 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
