Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

Fungal Diversity
Type species
Ostropella albocincta (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Höhn., Annls
mycol. 16: 144 (1918). (Fig. 72)
≡ Ostropa albocincta Berk & M.A. Curtis, in Berkeley,
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 10: 372 (1868).
Ascomata 1000–1730 μm high×1050–1450 μm diam.,
scattered to gregarious, erumpent to superficial, globose to
subglobose, roughened, often covered with white crustose
covering, with subiculum, with a broad compressed papilla
and long and slit-like ostiole (Fig. 72a). Peridium 100–
250 μm thick, not of uniform thickness throughout entire wall
area, composed of two cell types, one is of lightly pigmented
thin-walled cells of textura prismatica, cells up to 17×3 μm
diam., cell wall