Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Nectria lactea Ellis & Morgan ; Ellis & Ev. N. Am
Pyrenom. 110. 1892.
Perithecia minute, 125-200 yin diameter, nearly globose, gregarious or crowded, yellowish, at first clothed with a dense covering of delicate, white hairs, so that the whole cluster of plants has a whitish appearance, except the ostiolum, which is bare, becoming yellowish with age ; hairs about 2 ii in diameter, usually roughened externally with minute granules but occasionally smooth; asci cylindric, 8-spored, 40-50 X 5 z^; spores 1-seriate, broad-ellipsoid, hyaline, 1-septate, with an oil-drop in each cell, 5-8 X 3-4 /i.
On old fungi {Polyporus and Stereum), and also on rotten wood.
Type LOCALITY : Ohio.
Distribution : New York to Ohio, Florida, and I^ouisiana.
- 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
