Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Balansia hypoxylon (Peck) Atk. Jour. Myc. 11 : 254. 1905
lEphelis mexicana Fries ; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10 : 353. 1868. Eptchloe Hypoxylon Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 27 : 108. 1875. Hypocrella Hypoxylon Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2 : 581. 1883. lEphehs horealis EUis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 1 : 86. 1885. Dothtchloe Hypoxylon Atk. Bull. Torrey Club 21 : 223. 1894.
Sclerotia formed in the fruiting axes of the host, curved and irregular, 1 cm. or more in length, grayish or blackish ; stromata black, prominent, pulvinate or subhemispheric, 1-5 mm. in diameter, several springing from the same sclerotium, minutely roughened by the slightly protruding perithecia ; perithecia immersed ; asci cylindric, with a pedicel at the base, as much as 20 ^in length; spores 1 11 thick, at maturity breaking into segments 3-4 ^ long.
On Danthonia spicaia (L.) Beauv., and other grasses. Type locality : Sandlake, New York. Distribution : Maine to South Carolina, Texas, and Iowa.
- bibliographic citation
- Fred Jay Seaver, Helen Letitia Palliser, David Griffiths. 1910. HYPOCREALES, FIMETARIALES. North American flora. vol 3(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
