Fungalpedia – Note 1798, Rubropezicula
Rubropezicula Ekanayaka & K.D. Hyde
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Classification: Pezizellaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Etymology: refers to the similarity with the genus Pezicula and presence of red pigments in excipular hairs.
Saprobic on dead stems. Sexual morph: Apothecia arising in small groups, sessile to substipitate, erumpent. Receptacle cupulate, disc flat and whitish, margins are covered with hairs. Hairs cylindric, septate, composed of red pigments that readily dissolve in KOH and slightly dissolve in water. Ectal excipulum composed of cells of textura angularis. Medullary excipulum composed of cells of textura prismatica. Hymenium hyaline to reddish. Paraphyses numerous, filiform, obtuse and slightly swollen at the apex, septate, not exceeding the asci in length, smooth, aguttulate. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindric-clavate, rounded or medium conical at the apex, amyloid, stipitate base, croziers absent. Ascospores ovoid, septate, hyaline.
Type species: Rubropezicula thailandica Ekanayaka & K.D. Hyde, in Ekanayaka, Hyde, Gentekaki, McKenzie, Zhao, Bulgakov & Camporesi, Mycosphere 10(1): 433 (2019).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Rubropezicula.