Atropellis pinicola Zeller & Goodd.
no common name
Godroniaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Godroniaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include small, blackish, cup-shaped to disc-shaped fruiting bodies that are pruinose on the inner and outer surface, growth on pine bark, and microscopic characters. This is not the same as Godronia pinicola (Reb.)Karst.; Groves(3) in his monograph on Godronia gives Atropellis pinicola Zeller & Goodd. as the correct name for Godronia zelleri Seaver.
Microscopic:
spores 36-63 x 1.5-3.5 microns, filiform [thread-like] to acicular-clavate [needle - club-shape], colorless, continuous, guttulate; asci 8-spored, 74-178 x 8-13 microns, clavate, colorless, staining brown with iodine; paraphyses exceeding the length of the asci by 32-38 microns, hair-like, flexuous [wavy], "tips slender, agglutinated, forming a dense epithecium with rosy and purplish tints in section", (Seaver(2)), spores 32-63 x 1.5-3.5, filiform to acicular-clavate, colorless, 1-6-celled; asci 74-178 x 8-13 microns, (Reid, J.)
Notes:
Atropellis pinicola is found from OR to CA, MT and BC, (Seaver). Collections were examined from BC, WA, OR, ID, (Reid, J.).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Atropellis pinicola is easily distinguished from other Atropellis species on pine because of its long narrow spores: Atropellis piniphila has spores (14)16-28(32) x 4-7(8) microns, "elliptic-fusoid, with acute ends, straight or sigmoid, (0) to 1-septate (rarely becoming 3-septate)", and asci (85)90-160 microns, (Reid, J.).Habitat
single or gregarious, erupting from outer layers of bark on living branches of Pinus lambertiana, Pinus monticola, Pinus strobus, and Pinus contorta
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Clavaria bresadolae Quel.
Hericium bresadolae (Quel.) Malencon