TYPE. UNITED STATES. North Carolina, Macon County, on Ephebe lanata on wet rocks, 4.V.1939, H.C. Bold s.n. (F C0172583F, holotype).
Description.Life form: lichenicolous fungus.
[Translated and modified from Hennsen (1963)]. Thallus absent. Photobiont absent. Ascomata perithecia, 70-85 x 64-66 μm, black. Perithecial wall brown apically, up to 40 μm, hyaline or brownish below, up to ~10 μm. Paraphyses not seen; paraphysoids extend below ostiole. Asci cylindrical, thick-walled, 8-spored; ascospores hyaline, 1-2-septate, 11-13 x 2.5-3.5 μm.
Distribution. Europe, North America; in North Carolina found in the Blue Ridge ecoregion.
Literature
Diederich, P., J.D. Lawrey & D. Ertz. (2018) The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa. The Bryologist121(3): 340-425.
Henssen, A. (1963) Eine Revision der Flechtenfamilien Lichinaceae und Ephebaceae. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses18(1): 1-123 (original description as Pharcidia parva).