Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Chromocreopsis cubispora (Ellis &Holway) Seaver,
MycologiaZ: 63. 1910.
Hypocrea cubispora Ellis & Holway, Jour. Myc. 1 : 4. 1885.
Stromata scattered,tubercular, with a free margin, more or less contracted at the base, often becoming substipitate, 0.5-1 cm. in diameter and the same in height, at first very bright lemon-yellow and appearing pruinose, the color often changing in dried specimens, the surface scarcely wrinkled when dry, punctate with the slightly protruding necks of the perithecia filled with dark-colored spores ; asci cylindric ; spores subellipsoid or cuboid, smoky-brown, with 1 or 2 oil-drops, 5-7 X 4-5 /i, simple or occasionally obscurely 1 -septate.
On decaying wood and bark. Type locality : Decorah, Iowa.
Distribution : Iowa ; Jamaica.
- 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
