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Lamprospora gyroweisiae Calcada
Boletín Micológico de FAMCAL 20: 26 (2025)
Mycobank MB#859167

Holotype: SPAIN, CANTABRIA: Santander, Paseo marítimo, Avda. Castañeda, 43°28’23”N; 3°47’2”W, 10 m.s.n.m., 13-I-2024, sobre Gyroweisia reflexa, leg. A. Calzada, SALA-Fungi 12001. Paratipo: Ibidem, 05-I-2025, sobre Gyroweisia reflexa, leg. A. Calzada, ACD 3334.

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1: Lamprospora gyroweisiae, apothecia between shoots of Gyroweisia reflexa, holotype. image by Augusto Calcada 2: Lamprospora gyroweisiae, spores stained with cotton-blue, paratype
Apothecia: 0.5-1.5 mm in diameter, hymenium yellow-orange to red-orange
Asci: 175-300 x 20-25 µm, 8-spored, spores uniseriate, operculate, inamyloid
Paraphyses: filiform, upper cells containing many vacuoles with orange pigment, not or only slighly inflated apically to 3-4.5 µm
Ascospores: hyalin, globose, 14.3-15.6 µm, with a large lipid drop 9-10.5 µm in diameter, ornamentation consisting of curved ridges forming an alveolate reticulum, seaveri-type
Host: Gyroweisia reflexa
Infection; infects the rhizoids and protonema
Distribution: Spain


References:
  • Calzada A. 2025. Lamprospora gyroweisiae sp. nov. (Pezizales), una nueva especie de scomiceto briófilo de la Península Ibérica. - Bolletín Micológico de FAMCAL 20: 23–36.
Images:
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3: Lamprospora gyroweisiae, apothecia between shoots of Gyroweisia reflexa, holotype. image by Augusto Calcada 4: Lamprospora gyroweisiae, spores in water, paratype

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