Zygopleurage zygospora (Speg.) Boedijn 1962

Pleurage zygospora (Speg.) Kutitze, Rev
Gen. 3': 505. 1898.
Sordaria zygospora Speg. Michelia 1 : 227. 1878. Philocarpa zygospora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1 : 251. 1882.
Perithecia scattered, sunken or nearly superficial, when they are more or less covered with a dense or arachnoid fuscous mycelium, about 500 X 750 /i, thin, membranaceous, somewhat transparent, greenish below and black above, pyriform with a more or less elongate, cylindric, black, bare and curved beak ; asci primarily 8-spored, cylindric to clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a long, slender, crooked stipe, very evanescent, 42-54X250-320/^; paraphyses ventricose, tapering upward, septate, agglutinate, longer than the asci and not mixed with them ; spores consisting of an ellipsoid to ovoid fertile cell rounded at both ends, but usually more acutely so distally,at each end of a long, spirally arranged, hyaline, fugacious filament which corresponds to the primary appendage in the other species; terminal fertile cells 13-19 X 24-40 /t ; secondary appendages consisting of usually 4 rather short, tapering, hyaline, gelatinous, widespread processes attached to the distal ends of the fertile cells.
On dung of horses, cows, goats, sheep, and pigs.
Type locality : Italy. , . , . ^
Distribution : New York to South Dakota, Texas, and Ivouisiana; also m Europe.