Nipterella tsugae A. Funk
no common name
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include tiny discs that are dark brown and pruinose with a yellow spore-bearing upper surface, occasionally with smaller fruitbodies arising from within the primary one; rudimentary stem; growth on branches of Western Hemlock, and microscopic characters. The description is derived from Funk(6).
Microscopic:
spores 7-10 x 2-3 microns, elliptic to cuneate, colorless, not septate; asci 8-spored, 45-55 x 6-8 microns, cylindric, "a rectangular plug at the apex staining blue in iodine"; paraphyses broadly filiform or cylindric, colorless, simple, not forming an epithecium; medullary excipulum of colorless plectenchyma, "ectal excipulum of dark brown, moniliform cells arranged perpendicular to surface"
Notes:
The type is from BC.
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Sageria tsugae may be similar superficially and may be found close on the same habitat.Habitat
superficial, single, gregarious, in branches of Tsuga heterophylla (Western Hemlock), appears to be a colonizer of the understory branches that are dying due to shading out
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Grandinia farinacea (Pers.) Bourdot & Galzin
Hydnum farinaceum Pers.