Associations
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Foodplant / saprobe
erect stroma of Podostroma alutaceum is saprobic on half-buried, rotten wood of Pinopsida
Remarks: season: 9-11
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Podostroma alutaceum (Pers.) Atk. Bot. Gaz. 40 : 416. 1905
Sphaeria alutacea Pers. in Holmsk. Coryph. 144. 1797.
Sphaeria clavata Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 159. 1798.
Cordyceps alutacea lyink, Handb. 3 : 347. 1833.
Hypocrea alutacea Tul. Fixng. Carp. 1 : 62. 1861.
? Podostroma leucopus P. Karst. Hedwigia 31 : 294. 1892.
Podocrea alutacea Ivindau, in K& P. Nat. Pfl. li : 364. 1897.
Hypocrea Lloydii Bres. in C G. Uoyd, Myc. Notes 87. 1902.
Stromata vertical, consisting of a sterile stem and fertile, clavate or more or less irregular .head ; stem stout or slender and of variable length, the entire plant averaging 2-4 cm. high above the substratum, its length below the substratum variable, pale-yellow, whitish or tancolored, the fertile head slightly darker ; perithecia entirely immersed in the stroma or with their necks slightly protruding; asci cylindric or slightly clavate, 50-60 X4/^; spores subglobose or cuboid, about 4 X 3 /i.
On wood, decaying organic materials on the ground (and dead insects?).
Type locality : Europe,
Distribution : New York to West Virginia and North Carolina ; also in Europe.
- 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
