Hamathecium of dense, septate, cellular pseudoparaphyses, embedded in mucilage. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindro-clavate, with a narrowed,

furcate pedicel. Ascospores cylindrical with rounded ends, brown, 3-septate, deeply constricted at each septa, with sigmoid germ slit in each cell. Anamorphs reported for genus: none. Literature: Ahmed and Cain 1972; Ellis and Everhart 1892; check details Khan and Cain 1979a, b; Luck-Allen and Cain 1975. Type species Sporormiella nigropurpurea Ellis & Everh., N. Amer. Pyren.: 136 (1892). (Fig. 100) Fig. 100 Sporormiella nigropurpurea (from NY, holotype). a Section of an ascoma. b Section of the papilla. Note the dense pseudoparaphyses. c Section of a partial peridium. d, e Eight-spored cylindro-clavate asci with furcate pedicels. f, g Four-celled, brown ascospores. Note the sigmoid germ slit

in each cell. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b, c = 50 μm, d, e = 20 μm, f, g = 10 μm Current name: Preussia nigropurpurea (Ellis & Everh.) Kruys, Syst. Biod. 7: 476. Ascomata 314–528 μm high × (250-)357–500 μm diam., solitary, scattered, or in small groups, immersed, semi-immersed to nearly superficial, globose, subglobose, wall black, coriaceous, smooth, papillate, Compound Library papilla 43–115 μm long, 72–157 μm broad, ostiolate, ostiole filled with periphyses (Fig. 100a and b). Peridium 20–28 μm thick laterally, up to 40 μm thick at the apex, phosphatase inhibitor library composed of small heavily pigmented cells of textura angularis, cells 5–8 μm diam., cell wall 1–3 μm thick, apex cells smaller and walls thicker (Fig. 100c). Hamathecium of dense, long, septate, cellular pseudoparaphyses, 1.5–2 μm broad, embedded in mucilage. Asci (70-)110–158 × 9–12.5(−15) μm (\( \barx = 114.3 \times 11.1 \mu \textm \), n = 10), 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical to cylindro-clavate, with a narrowed, furcate pedicel, 13–38 μm long, ocular chamber apparent Oxalosuccinic acid (Fig. 100d and e). Ascospores 15–20 × 4–5.5 μm

(\( \barx = 17.3 \times 4.9 \mu \textm \), n = 10), obliquely uniseriate and partially overlapping to biseriate, shortly cylindrical with rounded ends, brown, 3-septate, deeply constricted at each septum, with sigmoid germ slit in each cell, smooth-walled (Fig. 100f and g). Anamorph: none reported. Material examined: USA, New field, New Jersey: Gloucester Co., on cow dung, Mar. 1891 (NY, holotype). Notes Morphology Sporormiella was formally established by Ellis and Everhart (1892) based on the single species, Sporormiella nigropurpurea, which is characterized by its “immersed to semi-immersed, papillate ascomata, cylindrical to cylindro-clavate asci with a pedicel, three to multi-septate ascospores with elongated germ slits through the whole cell” (Ahmed and Cain 1972; Khan and Cain 1979a, b).