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Trochila ilicina
Nomenclature
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Family: CenangiaceaeGenus: Trochila
SUMMARY
Anamorph: not known.
Teleomorph: ascomata apothecia, usually epigenous, 250-600 μm diam., immersed in leaf tissue, sessile, ± discoid but sometimes irregular in outline, opening by the overlying epidermis flaking off in its entirety to reveal the disc, which swells when wet to become shallowly domed. Exciple dark brown below. Disc dark grey-green to dark brown. Interascal tissue of paraphyses, cylindrical, septate, 3–3.5 (–4) μm diam., clavate (ca 5 µm diam.) and pigmented greenish brown at the tip. Asci 60-75 × 8-10 μm, cylindrical to clavate, arising from croziers, with a small pore blued by iodine, 8-spored. Ascospores biseriately arranged, 10-12.5 x 3.5-4.5 µm, ellipsoidal, aseptate, hyaline, without a gelatinous sheath or appendages.
Description adapted in part from Greenhalgh & Morgan-Jones (1964).