Podospora adelura (Griffiths) Cain 1962

Pleurage adelura D. GrifF. Mem. Torrey Club 11 : 91. 1901
Philocopra adelura Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17 : 607. 1905.
Perithecia sunken, scattered, about 450X750^, thin, membranaceous, brown and opaque, pyriform, with a smooth, black, papilliform to cylindric, projecting beak; asci 64spored, fusiform-clavate, contracted and narrowly rounded above and tapering below into a stout stipe, about 75X370/^; paraphyses ventricose, agglutinate, irregular, longer than 3. 7?. leporina. the asci but not mixed with them ; spores in several series, ellipsoid, broadly rounded at both ends 13-19 X 26-32/^, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to darkbrown and opaque ; primary appendage wide, cylindric, shorter than the spore and quite persistent ; secondary appendages terminating the primary and apex of the spore, at first long, delicate filaments made up of 2 strands, but at maturity appearing like 2 short, irregular projections with very uncertain characters.
On rabbit dung.
Type locality : Auburn, Alabama
Distribution : Known only from the type locality