Syzygospora subsolida Ginns
no common name
Carcinomycetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Carcinomycetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Syzygospora subsolida forms a thin layer on the surface of hypertrophied cap of Marasmius pallidocephalus, sometimes completely obscuring the cap.
Microscopic:
spores 6-7.6(8.8) x 3.2-4 microns, obliquely lacrymoid with broad, blunt base, smooth, wall colorless, typically with refractive oil droplet at point of attachment, "obliquely attached to sterigmata, some producing blastoconidia"; basidia "initially broadly clavate, essentially pedicellate", about 15 x 8 microns, when mature suburniform to cylindric-clavate, (27)32(40) x 7-9 microns "with simple septum at base and incompletely cruciately septate at apex", the apical septum extending downward 3 microns into the basidium, sterigmata (2-3)4, each 6-10 microns long, "typically with refractive, oily deposit at tip"; conidia blastic, arising from basidiospores, 1.5-3.5 x 1.5-2 microns, ovoid, broadly elliptic to nearly round, smooth, thin-walled, wall colorless; conidiophores not seen; subiculum about 10 microns thick, of repent, scattered, colorless, thin-walled, simple-septate hyphae 2-2.4(3) microns wide; haustorial branches typically 3-4 microns in diam, "subglobose, almost pedicellate knobs projecting from the hyphae with a narrow hypha that attaches to the host cell"
Notes:
It was known by 1986 only from the type collection made in BC in Glacier National Park.
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Syzygospora solida also occurs on the hypertrophied caps of Marasmius pallidocephalus, but has clamp connections and was known by 1986 only from the type in Colorado, (Ginns). Syzygospora marasmoidea also grows on hypertrophied caps of Marasmius pallidocephalus but has 2-spored basidia and the known range in 1986 was ON, QC, and PE, (Ginns).Habitat
on surface of hypertrophied caps of Marasmius pallidocephalus, sometimes completely obscuring the cap
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Aleurodiscus minnsiae H.S. Jacks.
Laeticorticium minnsiae (H.S. Jacks.) Donk