%0 Journal Article
%T A new species of Pseudoplectania (Sarcosomataceae, Pezizales) from Venezuela
%A Iturriaga
%A Teresa
%A Mardones
%A Melissa
%A Urbina
%A H¨¦ctor
%J Kurtziana
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X a new species of the genus pseudoplectania (sarcosomataceae, pezizales) was collected on wood in a tropical forest in southern venezuela, at gran sabana, canaima national park, bol¨ªvar state; species of the genus pseudoplectania are characterized by having a deep cup shaped sessile or stipitated apothecia, covered by coiled or twisted hairs, j- asci containing 8 globose, smooth, hyaline ascospores; the new species can be distinguished from the rest of the species in the genus in having small short-stipitate apothecia, cylindrical hyaline paraphyses and ascospores with small scattered warts visible only in material stained with aqueous congo red; ornamented ascospores have not been previously described in the genus.
%K discomycetes
%K ascospore ornamentation
%K congo red
%K pseudoplectania
%K neotropics
%K fungi.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1852-59622012000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en