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Lamprospora leptodictya Dissing
Mycologia 73: 263 (1981)
Mycobank: MB#112396

Holotype: Greenland, at the head of Kangerdlugssuaq, (Søndre Strømfjord) 62°02'N, 50°44'W, E of hotel, in sandy soil among the mosses Aongstroemia longipes and two sterile Bryum spp., 1973-Aug-11 P. Milan Petersen (73.108, C)

Apothecia: 0.8-1.8 mm in diameter with conspicous membranaceous margin, hymenium orange
Asci: 330-370 x 18-22 µm, 8-spored, spores uniseriate
Ascospores: subglobose, 15-17 x 13-15.5 µm, ornamentation consisting of curved, partly anastomosing ridges 0.5-0.9 µm wide, with acuminate, blunt ends. The ridges are mostly short with many blunt ends and rarely unite into a reticulate pattern.
Host: Aongstroemia longipes
Habitat: in arctic-alpine habitats, on soil
Distribution: France, Greenland, Norway, Switzerland

References:
  • Benkert, D. 1987a. Beiträge zur Taxonomie der Gattung Lamprospora (Pezizales). - Zeitschrift für Mykologie 53: 195-271.
  • Caillet, M. & Moyne, G. 1991. Clé de détermination du genre Octospora et des genres voisins. - Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle du Doubs 84: 9-24.
  • Dissing, H. 1981. Four new species of discomycetes (Pezizales) from West Greenland. - Mycologia 73: 263-273.
  • Dissing, H. 1982. Operculate Discomycetes(Pezizales) from Greenland. - Arctic and Alpine Mycology: First International Symposium on Arctic-Alpine Mycology, Seattle and London.
  • Eckstein J., Vega M., Sochorová Z. & Janošík L. 2022. Lamprospora benkertii sp. nov., and an evaluation of Lamprospora spp. with seaveri-type ascospore ornamentation. - Mycotaxon 136: 693–717. DOI
  • Janošík, L., Sochorová, Z., Eckstein, J., Vega, M. & Koukol, O. 2023. Ascospore morphology of bryophilous Pezizales is closely associated with the place of infection and host ecology. - Fungal Ecology 61: 101200. DOI
  • Schumacher, T. K. 1993. Studies in arctic and alpine Lamprospora species. - Sydowia 45: 307-337.
  • Van Vooren, N. 2015. Quelques Pezizales intéressantes recoltées en Vanoise. - Bulletin Mycologique et Botanique Dauphiné-Savoie. 218:23–29.

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