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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 13 Bicrouania maritima<br />

(from IMI 330806, isotype). a<br />

Section of an ascoma. b Section<br />

of papilla. Note the periphyses.<br />

c–e Eight-spored asci. Note the<br />

furcated pedicel. Scale bars: a,<br />

b=100 μm, c–e=20 μm<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat terrestrial, saprobic. Ascomata solitary, superficial,<br />

globose, dark brown, epapillate, ostiolate. Peridium thin,<br />

pseudoparenchymatous. Hamathecium of few, cellular<br />

pseudoparaphyses, embedded in mucilage, rarely anastomosing<br />

and branching. Asci bitunicate, fissitunicate, broadly<br />

clavate with short pedicels, 2-3-spored. Ascospores muriform,<br />

broadly ellipsoid, dark brown with subhyaline end<br />

cells, verrucose.<br />

Anamorphs reported for genus: none.<br />

Literature: Barr 1987b; Hawksworth et al. 1979;<br />

Lumbsch and Huhndorf 2007.<br />

Type species<br />

Bimuria novae-zelandiae Hawksworth, Chea & Sheridan,<br />

N. Z. J. Bot. 17: 268 (1979). (Fig. 14)<br />

Ascomata (185-)200×310(-330) μm diam., solitary, scattered,<br />

semi-immersed or superficial, globose, hyaline when

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