Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Podostroma brevipes (Mont.) Seaver, Mycoiogia 2: 61. 1910
Cordyceps brevipes Mont. Syll. Crypt. 201. 1856.
f Hypocrea Petersii Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 4 : 13. 1875.
Hypocrea brevipes Sacc. Michelia 1 : 304. 1878. Stromata short-stipitate or substipitate, turbinate, 1-2 cm. in diameter, 0.5-1 cm. high, convex or often irregularly convolute above, brown externally, whitish within, papillate with the necks of the slightly protruding perithecia, often dusted over with a yellowish powder, consisting of the exuded spores, rugose, darker below, often blackish ; perithecia covering the upper surface of the stroma, immersed, with the necks shghtly protruding, subglobose ; asci cylindric, 75 X 5 // ; spores 4-5 fi in diameter.
On old wood.
Type locality : Cayenne.
Distribution : Ohio (and Alabama?) ; also in South America.
- 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
