Podospora comata Milovtz. 1937

Egypt.

Ascomata. Perithecial, scattered, semi-immersed or almost superficial, 280-640 × 190-250 μm, pyriform, dark brown to almost black, with straight, sparingly septate, brown hairs measuring 100-600 × 2-4 μm, sometimes forming a few tufts at base of neck; neck papilliform or conical, blackened with papillae; peridium thin, membranaceous, brown, consisting of indistinct cells. Asci. Rounded at the apex, cylindrical to clavate, 160-200 × 16-27 μm, stipe 50-70 μm, with a small apical ring, 4-spored, with spores arranged in one row. Ascospores. Ellipsoid, 26-32 (-35) × 15-17.5 (-19) μm, dark brown and opaque, narrowly rounded at the apex, truncate at the base; exospore thin; primary appendage basal, cylindrical 11-24 × 4.5-6 μm; secondary appendages lash-like, the upper eccentrically attached near the apex of the spore, longer than spore and 4.5-5 μm wide at base, the lower similar, attached to distal end of primary appendage; occasionally two very small, fugaceous secondary appendages attached to the primary appendage near the middle; germ pore apical, 1.5-2.5 μm diam. Paraphyses. Abundant, filiform, septate, longer than the asci.

Podospora comata je grzib, co go ôpisoł Milovtz. 1937. Podospora comata nŏleży do zorty Podospora i familije Lasiosphaeriaceae. Żŏdne podgatōnki niy sōm wymianowane we Catalogue of Life.