Abstoma longii Zeller

  • Filed As

    Lycoperdaceae
    Abstoma longii Zeller ( probable holotype )

  • Collector(s)

    W. H. Long, Jr. 8310, 11 Nov 1918

  • Location

    United States of America. New Mexico. Doña Ana Co. Jornado Range Experiment Station. about 23 miles from Las Cruces.

  • Habitat

    In open sandy mesquite dunes.

  • Description

    Fructifications depressed globose, dark brown, up tp 2.0 cm in diameter.; exoperidium thin with sand inclusions, mostly persisting; endoperidium papery thin, but hard and shell-like; gleba at first soft, then dark-sepia and flocculent, powdery; capillitium tinted or almost hyaline, threads short, fragmentary, flexuous; spores sperical, dark-brown, echinulate, 26.2-28.75 microns including echinulae, which are 3.7-5.0 microns long, close together, softish or flexuous. Phenology of specimen: Basidiomata.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 65576

    Occurrence ID: 4ec976e8-fe47-43da-9a4f-109d0de8e485

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  • Region

    North America

  • Country

    United States of America

  • State/Province

    New Mexico

  • County/Municipio

    Doña Ana Co.

  • Locality

    Jornado Range Experiment Station. about 23 miles from Las Cruces

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