Podospora longicaudata (Griffiths) Cain 1962

Pleurage longicaudata D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11 : 81. 1901
Sordaria longicaudata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17 : 601. 1905.
Perithecia scattered, sunken, but becoming half exposed at maturity, 450-600X600900//, thin, miembranaceous, greenish below when young, but finally becoming black and opaque, globose to pyriform with short, narrow-cylindric, black, bare beak ; asci clavate, straight or curved, contracted and narrowly rounded above and tapering below into a short, broad stipe, very evanescent, 32-42X280-300//; paraphyses very wide, tubular-ventricose, irregular, tapering upward, slightly longer than the asci ; spores ellipsoid, rounded at the ends, but usually more acutely so above, 23-25 X 45-53 //, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque ; primary appendages pestleshaped, about two-thirds the length of the spore; secondary appendages covering the entire spore and primary appendages as well, being shortest around the equator, increasing in length towards the ends where they become united into a very long, slender, fugacious, hyaline, gelatinous, striate-f rayed filament.
On cow dung.
Type locality ; Rooks County, Kansas. Distribution : Kansas to Texas and Alabama.