Ascobolus viridis Currey

viridis, green

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Description:
cup fungus
Fruiting Body: sessile apothecium up to 5 mm. Spores: ascospores 30-35 x 13-15 µm, fusiform, purple, with longitudinal reticulate ridges.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: small green pulvinulate ascocarp on soil

Diagnostic microscopic feature: asci protrude above the hymenium; spores are purple

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not commonly seen

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on soil

Fruiting Season: summer

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Order: Pezizales
 

 

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