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Sarcoscypha austriaca
Nomenclature
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Family: SarcoscyphaceaeGenus: Sarcoscypha
SUMMARY
Anamorph: Molliardomyces sp.; hyphomycetous, hyaline, the conidiogenous cells proliferating sympodially with inconspicuous flat scars. Conidia ellipsoidal, hyaline, thin-walled.
Teleomorph: ascomata apothecia, 7-50 (-65) mm diam., usually stipitate, the stipe central, 2-40 mm long; hymenium scarlet (rare yellow or orange morphs also occur), often splitting at the margin at maturity; outer wall white to pinkish-buff, with fine downy hairs, especially towards the stem. Excipular hairs matted, 3.5-5 µm diam., thick-walled, hyaline, straight to slightly sinuous in water but sometimes appearing corkscrewed when dry, occasionally septate, the septa thin. Paraphyses filled with tiny orange to red guttules, septate, branched, apically slightly clavate, sometimes anastomosed and slightly moniliform below. Asci to ca 450 µm long and 17-19 µm diam., cylindrical, rounded at the apex, with a tapering, undulating base not arising from croziers, thick-walled but not fissitunicate, 8-spored. Ascospores uniseriately arranged, (19-) 26-34 (-41) x (8-) 11-14 (-17) µm, cylindric-ellipsoidal to narrowly doliiform, apices usually rounded when immature but ± truncate or with a saddle-like depression when fully mature, hyaline, aseptate, smooth, sometimes with a broad gelatinous sheath visible within the ascus that usually breaks down on release.
Description based in part on Butterfill & Spooner (1995) and Baral (1984).