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Discinella terrestris

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Species of fungus

Discinella terrestris
In Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Helotiales
Family: Helotiaceae
Genus: Discinella
Species: D. terrestris
Binomial name
Discinella terrestris
(Berk. & Broome) Dennis (1958)
Synonyms
  • Helotium terrestre Berk. & Broome (1882)
  • Dasyscyphus terrestris (Berk. & Broome) Sacc. (1889)

Discinella terrestris is a species of fungus in the family Helotiaceae. It was first described as Helotium terrestre by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome in 1882, from collections made in Brisbane. R.W.G. Dennis transferred it to the genus Discinella in 1958.

Fruit bodies are orange to yellowish-orange discs up to 10 mm (0.4 in) in diameter. The cylindrical eight-spored asci are borne on long stalks, and measure 200–225 by 10–14 μm; spores are elliptical to spindle-shaped, contains two to four oil droplets, and measure 14–25 by 7.5–9 μm. Paraphyses are shaped like narrow cylinders about 2 μm thick, and have rounded tips. The species is found in Australia, where it grows on the floor of sclerophyllous eucalypt forests.

References

  1. Saccardo PA. (1889). "Discomyceteae et Phymatosphaeriaceae". Sylloge Fungorum. 8: 468.
  2. "Discinella terrestris (Berk. & Broome) Dennis :342, 1958". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
  3. Berkeley MJ, Broome CE. (1883). "List of fungi from Brisbane, Queensland; with descriptions of new species. Part II". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2 (3): 53–73. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1883.tb00004.x.
  4. Dennis RWG. (1958). "Critical notes on some Australian Helotiales and Ostropales". Kew Bulletin. 13 (2): 321–58. doi:10.2307/4109542. JSTOR 4109542.
  5. Fuhrer BA. (2005). A Field Guide to Australian Fungi. Bloomings Books Pty Limited. p. 315. ISBN 978-1-876473-51-8.
  6. Capdevila-Argüelles L, Zilletti B. (2005). Issues in Bioinvasion Science. Springer. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4020-3870-9.

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Taxon identifiers
Discinella terrestris
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