Notes on Iowa Fungi. XII

Authors

G. W. Martin, State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Acrospermum includes a few small and inconspicuous species of club-like fungi in which the single erect ovate or flattened spore chamber is borne on a stalk or a constricted base. Lindau (in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. I. 1:278. 1896) erected for the genus the monotypic family Acrospermaceae, based largely on the flattened ascocarp and slit-like dehiscence of A. compressum Tode ex Fries, the oldest and best-known species, and included the family, with some reservation, in the Hysteriales. Other authors have assigned it to the Hypocreales and Sphaeriales. Brandriff (Mycologia 28:228-235. 1936) gives a review of the pertinent literature. She succeeded in growing A. compressiim in pure culture and made a histological study of the development of the ascocarp, as a result of which she decided that the ascigerous cavity is a true locule, hence the entire ascocarp consists of an erect, uniloculate stroma and that the species should be assigned to a position among the loculate groups "in the vicinity of the Coryneales and Pseudosphaeriales." In accordance with this suggestion, verified by my own observations, I included the Acrospermaceae in the Dothideales in the 1950 edition of the Outline of the Fungi.

Publication Date

1952

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

59

Issue

1

First Page

111

Last Page

118

Copyright

©1952 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Martin, G. W. (1952) "Notes on Iowa Fungi. XII," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 59(1), 111-118.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol59/iss1/14