Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sphacelotheca veracruziana Zundel & Dunlap, sp. nov
Sori filling the ovaries, ovoid, chiefly 1-2 mm. in diameter, covered with a prominent thick false irregularly dehiscent membrane; spore-mass powdery, black-brown, surrounding a large globose columella; sterile cells of membrane variable in shape and size, firmly adhering together, the cells of the interior often in pairs, hyaline, thick-walled, angular, subspheric, smaller than the spores; spores with a tendency to agglutinate, reddish-brown, ovoid to ellipsoid, coarsely verruculose, chiefly 8-13 ji in length. (See page 1029.) On Poaceae;
Panicum viscidellum. Vera Cruz. Tvpe collected at Jalapa. Vera Cruz, at an altitude of about 1400 meters, on Panicum viscidellum. September 2-t. 1910. by A. S. Hitchcock (no. 6606). Distribution: Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel, John Hendley Barnhart. 1939. (USTILAGINALES); ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, HOST-INDEX. North American flora. vol 7(14). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
