Meanings
- not comparablebiologyPierced (at the apex); perforated.
The perithecia are not typical of the genus. They are nearly twice as long as wide at the base and although pertusate, are not circularly so. The asci are eight-spored, […]
1925, New York State Museum bulletin, page 732 more examples
We have not accepted the genus Trematosphaeria as distinct from Melanomma. The basing of a genus upon size and pertusate apex seems insufficient. The latter character is often a condition of age and consequent deciduousness of the neck or ostiolum.
1921, Charles E. Fairman, The fungi of our common nuts and pits, page 102Unexpanded basidiocarps (peridia) 1.5-3 x 1-1.5 cm, white, globose, then ovate, splitting irregularly at apex into several lobes, attached by a white, branched, cord-like mycelium. Pileus Chinese writing brush shaped to narrow campanulate, rutilous, externally finely to coarsely rugulose; lower margin even to irregular; apex becoming truncate at maturity, pertusate at center, 1.5-3.3 cm high, 1-1.5 cm wide, and surface again with greenish brown, mucilaginous, stinking gleba.
1984, Po Liu, The Gasteromycetes of China, page 41
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