Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Neovossia iowensis Hume & Hodson, Bot. Gaz. 30 : 274. 1900
Sori in ovaries, ovoid, about 2-3 mm. in length, showing between the spreading glumes, upon ruptiire of covering membrane disclosing a dusty black spore-mass ; sterile cells or immature spores hyaline, thick-walled, chiefly smaller than the spores ; spores reddishbrown, subopaque, ovoid or ellipsoidal to rarely subspherical, with prominent hyaline envelope that terminates at one end in a tapering irregular tail about twice the length of the spore, the cell-wall minutely reticulate-pitted, 19-28 n X 13-19/^.
On Poaceae :
Phragmiies Phragmites {P. communis) ^ Connecticut^ Iowa. Type locality: Colo, Iowa, on Phragmites communis (P. Phragmites). PiSTRiBUTiON : Connecticut and Iowa.
- bibliographic citation
- George Perkins Clinton. 1906. USTILAGINALES; USTILAGINACEAE, TILLETIACEAE. North American flora. vol 7(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
