Podospora decipiens (G. Winter) Niessl 1883

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Bos taurus (domestic)
Other: major host/prey

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Equus caballus
Other: major host/prey

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Cervidae
Other: minor host/prey

Animal / dung saprobe
partly immersed perithecium of Podospora decipiens is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Oryctolagus cuniculus
Other: minor host/prey

Pleurage decipiens (Wint.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3' : 505. 1898
Sordaria decipiens Wint.; Fuckel, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. 27-28: 44. 1873. Eusordaria decipiens Zopf, Zeits. Naturw. 56 : 547. 1883. Podospora decipiens Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fl. V: 173. 1884.
Perithecia pyriform, sunken in the substratum, scattered, 300-450X575-750^; walls thin, membranaceous, black above and greenish below, often so transparent that the asci and spores can be indistinctly seen by transmitted light ; beak moderately long, straight or curved and often roughened above by a few short papillae; rhizoids abundant and extending up to the projecting, usually curved, black beak ; asci 8-spored, clavate, rounded above and contracted below into a pedicel of medium length, evanescent, 40-55 X 180-240/i ; paraphyses long, ventricose, septate, agglutinate, abundant, but not much mixed with the asci ; spores 2-seriate, ellipsoid to ovoid, slightly wider below the middle, 20-24 X 38-54 /i, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque ; germpore large, apical and excentric ; lower end of spore terminated by a long cylindric primary appendage, 1-1.5 times the length of the spore, the base of this appendage being surrounded by short, gelatinous, secondary appendages, while the apex of the spore is crowned by a lyre-shaped tuft of similar consistency.
On dung of cows, horses, sheep, prairie-dogs, rabbits, and dogs.
tjt^'Sit'^tttionVermont to Montana, Arizona, and Alabama; also in Europe.

Podospora decipiens is a species of coprophilous fungus in the family Podosporaceae. It is especially common on the islands around Greece, where it grows on the dung of sheep, goats and donkeys.