Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Scoleconectria atkinsonii (Rehm) Seaver,
Mycologia 1 : 201. 1909.
Caloneciria Alkinsonii'Rehni, Ann. Myc. 2 : 178. 1904.
Perithecia erumpent in dense clusters 1-2 mm. in diameter; individual perithecia subconic, tapering into a prominent obtuse ostiolum, at first densely yellowfur furaceous with the ostiolum bare and darker-colored, finally becoming bare and dark brownish-black ; asci clavate with a subtruncate apex and slender stem-like base, 90-100 X 15-17 /i, 8-spored; spores fusoid or subfusiform, at first 1-septate, becoming 3-septate and constricted at the middle septum, mostly curved, hyaline or subhyaline, 27-33 X 8-9 /i; paraphyses filiform, 3 ^ in diameter.
On dead branches of Acer, Crataegus, Tilia, etc.
Type LOCALITY : McKinney's Glen [New York].
Distribution : Ontario and New York.
- 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
