identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
715C87CF9730FFC1FF4FF953E29DBD4D.text	715C87CF9730FFC1FF4FF953E29DBD4D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Acervus crepusculinus Jia Y. Lin, Zhen-Chao Liu, Zhu L. Yang & Kun L. Yang 2025	<div><p>Acervus crepusculinus Jia Y. Lin, Zhen-Chao Liu, Zhu L. Yang &amp; Kun L. Yang, sp. nov.</p><p>Registration identifier: FN572416</p><p>Etymology:— Referring to the dark orangish colour of this fungus, which resembles the dusk sky.</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differing from A. aurorinus by the larger apothecium, darker hymenium surface when fresh, brighter hymenium surface after dried, smaller ascospores, more frequently branching paraphyses and the medullary excipulum with less elements of a textura globulosa.</p><p>Type:— CHINA. Guangdong Province: Guangzhou City, Huangpu District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.540276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.19222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.540276/lat 23.19222)">Jiangdong Village</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.540276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.19222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.540276/lat 23.19222)">Boluoshan Hill</a>, on soil, 23°11'32"N, 113°32'25"E, elevation 150 m, July 15, 2024, Zhen-Chao Liu, Jia Y. Lin &amp; Kun L. Yang, S24018 (HKAS145959, holotype! (deposited in the <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.540276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.19222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.540276/lat 23.19222)">Herbarium of Cryptogams</a> in <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.540276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.19222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.540276/lat 23.19222)">Kunming Institute of Botany</a> of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.540276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.19222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.540276/lat 23.19222)">Chinese Academy of Sciences</a>; nrLSU: PV168197; rpb2: PV172440; tef-1α: PV172447); HTBM2075, isotype!) .</p><p>Description:— Ascomata tiny to small, substipitate. Apothecium 4–18 mm broad, 1.5–8.5 mm high excluding the pseudorhiza, irregularly concave, discoid to nearly plane, with a flat to flexuous margin when mature, with a fragile, yellowish to orangish pseudorhiza. Hymenium surface smooth, tangerine orange (#F5AC4C) to carrot orange (#F79D3D) when fresh, becoming papaya red (# F99565) to sparrow orange (#DA9D71) after dried. External surface relatively rough, amber orange (#F1C740) to honey orange (#FFAC2A) when fresh, becoming bread orange (#F3C374) to eggshell orange (#F4C291) after dried. Context fragile, yellowish to orangish. Odour indistinct. Taste unknown.</p><p>Ascospores ellipsoid to oblong, uniseriate, nearly colourless, slightly thick- to thick-walled, non-septate, smooth, {40/2/2} (6) 6.5–8 [7.14 ± 0.51, 7.50] × 4–5 [4.50 ± 0.34, 4.50] µm, Q = (1.33) 1.40–1.78 (1.88) [1.59 ± 0.12, 1.56] including spore wall, uni- to biguttulate. Asci narrowly cylindrical, operculate, eight-spored, nearly colourless, 105–125 µm in length, with a sporiferous part 55–65 × 6–7.5 µm when mature, with a crozier at the base. Paraphyses abundant, filiform, slightly yellowish to yellowish, 3.5–5 µm wide at the middle, septate, unbranched to frequently branched. Subhymenium up to 36 µm thick, slightly yellowish to yellowish. Medullary excipulum up to 205 µm thick, composed of a gelatinized textura intricata of slightly yellowish to yellowish, 5–21 µm wide, thick-walled hyphae, mixed with a gelatinized textura globulosa of slightly yellowish to yellowish, 12–36 × 9–27 µm, thick-walled cells. Ectal excipulum up to 125 µm thick, composed of a slightly gelatinized textura globulosa to textura angularis of slightly yellowish to yellowish, 10–42 × 7.5–28 µm, slightly thick- to thick-walled cells, with abundant hyphae up to 8.5 µm wide at the middle and up to 11.5 µm wide at the inflated top and some inflated cells up to 15 µm long and 11 µm wide arising from the external surface.</p><p>Habitat and distribution:— Solitary to gregarious, on soil of subtropical forests. Currently known from South China.</p><p>Additional collections examined:— CHINA. Guangdong Province: Guangzhou City, Huangpu District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.540276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.19222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.540276/lat 23.19222)">Jiangdong Village</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.540276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.19222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.540276/lat 23.19222)">Boluoshan Hill</a>, on soil, 23°11'32"N, 113°32'25"E, elevation 150 m, August 2, 2023, Zhen-Chao Liu, Jia Y. Lin &amp; Kun L. Yang, L 23254 (HTBM1206 (nrLSU: PV168192; tef-1α: PV172443)) ; same location, August 26, 2024, Zhen-Chao Liu, Jia Y. Lin &amp; Kun L. Yang, S24045 (HTBM2125 (nrLSU: PV168198; rpb2: PV172441; tef- 1α: PV172448)) .</p><p>Notes: —Also similar to A. heilongjiangensis, A. lusakianus and A. xishuangbannicus, but differing from A. heilongjiangensis by the larger apothecium with a pseudorhiza, smaller and uni- to biguttulate ascospores, longer asci, wider paraphyses, the medullary excipulum of a textura intricata and textura globulosa and the ectal excipulum of a textura globulosa to textura angularis; differing from A. lusakianus by the larger apothecium, ellipsoid to oblong and larger ascospores, longer and wider asci, filiform and thinner paraphyses and the medullary excipulum of a textura intricata and textura globulosa; and from A. xishuangbannicus by the larger apothecium, uni- to biguttulate and smaller ascospores, shorter and thinner asci, thinner paraphyses, the medullary excipulum of a textura intricata and textura globulosa and the ectal excipulum of a textura globulosa to textura angularis.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/715C87CF9730FFC1FF4FF953E29DBD4D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Lin, Jia Y.;Liu, Zhen-Chao;Li, Guang-Mei;Yang, Zhu L.;Yang, Kun L.	Lin, Jia Y., Liu, Zhen-Chao, Li, Guang-Mei, Yang, Zhu L., Yang, Kun L. (2025): Three new species of Acervus (Ascomycota, Pezizales) from South China. Phytotaxa 700 (1): 73-86, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.700.1.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.700.1.6
715C87CF973DFFCFFF4FFAC3E408BFD4.text	715C87CF973DFFCFFF4FFAC3E408BFD4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Acervus stellatus Jia Y. Lin, Zhu L. Yang & Kun L. Yang 2025	<div><p>Acervus stellatus Jia Y. Lin, Zhu L. Yang &amp; Kun L. Yang, sp. nov.</p><p>Registration identifier: FN572417</p><p>Etymology:— Referring to the whitish to palely yellowish colour and the shape of this fungus, which resemble meteors.</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from Acervus epispartius f. albus Korf &amp; W.Y. Zhuang (1989: 297) by the larger apothecium, broader ascospores, longer and wider asci, wider paraphyses, the medullary excipulum of a textura angularis to textura globulosa and the ectal excipulum of a textura angularis, textura globulosa to textura epidermoidea, and from other species of Acervus by the whitish to palely yellowish ascomata.</p><p>Type:— CHINA. Guangdong Province: Guangzhou City, Tianhe District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.36111&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.159445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.36111/lat 23.159445)">South China Agricultural University</a>, a lawn in front of the <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.36111&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.159445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.36111/lat 23.159445)">College of Forestry</a> and <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.36111&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.159445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.36111/lat 23.159445)">Landscape Architecture</a>, on soil, 23°09'34"N, 113°21'40"E, elevation 30 m, August 30, 2023, Jia Y. Lin, L 23338 (HKAS145957, holotype! (deposited in the <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.36111&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.159445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.36111/lat 23.159445)">Herbarium of Cryptogams</a> in <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.36111&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.159445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.36111/lat 23.159445)">Kunming Institute of Botany</a> of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.36111&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.159445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.36111/lat 23.159445)">Chinese Academy of Sciences</a>; nrLSU: PV168193; rpb1: PV172437; rpb2: PV172439; tef-1α: PV172444); HTBM1319, isotype!) .</p><p>Description:— Ascomata small, sessile to shortly stipitate. Apothecium 11–16 mm broad, 3.5–5.5 mm high excluding the stipe, irregularly concave, discoid to nearly plane, usually with an involute margin when mature, arising from a whitish mycelial pad. Hymenium surface smooth, star white (#FBFBEB), garlic yellow (#F1F0D4) to thatch yellow (#F1ECC5) when fresh, becoming bone brown (#E3D3C4), turtledove brown (#D0BCA4) to mongoose brown (#B5A284) after dried. External surface relatively rough, concolorous with hymenium surface . Stipe short or absent, up to 1 mm long, concolorous with hymenium surface . Context thin, fragile, concolorous with hymenium surface . Odour indistinct. Taste unknown.</p><p>Ascospores ellipsoid to oblong, uniseriate, nearly colourless, thin- to slightly thick-walled, non-septate, smooth, {40/2/1} 5.5–6.5 [6.05 ± 0.35, 6.00] × 3.5–4.5 [4.00 ± 0.19, 4.00] µm, Q = 1.38–1.71 [1.51 ± 0.09, 1.50] including spore wall, uniguttulate. Asci narrowly cylindrical, operculate, eight-spored, nearly colourless, 80–100 µm in length, with a sporiferous part 42–50 × 5.5–7 µm when mature, with a crozier at the base. Paraphyses abundant, filiform, nearly colourless, 3–4.5 µm wide at the middle, septate, usually unbranched, rarely branched. Subhymenium up to 23 µm thick, nearly colourless. Medullary excipulum up to 150 µm thick, composed of a gelatinized textura angularis to textura globulosa of nearly colourless, 9–31 × 8.5–23 µm, thick-walled cells and some gelatinized, 5–13 µm wide, nearly colourless, thick-walled hyphae. Ectal excipulum up to 105 µm thick, composed of a textura angularis, textura globulosa to textura epidermoidea of nearly colourless, 9.5–40 × 7.5–26 µm, thin-walled cells, with some hyphae up to 7 µm wide and some inflated cells up to 47 µm long and 14 µm wide arising from the external surface.</p><p>Habitat and distribution:— Gregarious, on soil of urban green belts. Currently known from South China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/715C87CF973DFFCFFF4FFAC3E408BFD4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Lin, Jia Y.;Liu, Zhen-Chao;Li, Guang-Mei;Yang, Zhu L.;Yang, Kun L.	Lin, Jia Y., Liu, Zhen-Chao, Li, Guang-Mei, Yang, Zhu L., Yang, Kun L. (2025): Three new species of Acervus (Ascomycota, Pezizales) from South China. Phytotaxa 700 (1): 73-86, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.700.1.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.700.1.6
715C87CF973CFFCFFF4FFDE7E211B620.text	715C87CF973CFFCFFF4FFDE7E211B620.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Acervus epispartius (Berk. & Broome 1873) Pfister, Occasional Papers 1975	<div><p>Acervus epispartius (Berk. &amp; Broome) Pfister, Occasional Papers of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany</p><p>8: 3 (1975)</p><p>≡ Peziza epispartia Berk. &amp; Broome, Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 14(74): 103 (1873) (≡ Phialea epispartia (Berk. &amp; Broome) Pat., Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 29: 221 (1913); ≡ Phaedropezia epispartia (Berk. &amp; Broome) Le Gal, Les Discomycètes de Madagascar: 181 (1953)).</p><p>= Acervus aurantiacus Kanouse, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences 23: 149 (1938).</p><p>= Peziza flavotingens Berk. &amp; Broome, Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 14(74): 104 (1873) (≡ Humaria flavotingens (Berk. &amp; Broome) Sacc., Sylloge Fungorum 8: 129 (1889); ≡ Phaedropezia flavotingens (Berk. &amp; Broome) Le Gal, Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 29(2): 96 (1959)).</p><p>= Peziza radiculosa Berk. &amp; Broome, Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 14(74): 103 (1873) (≡ Sarcoscypha radiculosa (Berk. &amp; Broome) Sacc., Sylloge Fungorum 8: 155 (1889)).</p><p>= Peziza microspora Berk. &amp; M.A. Curtis, Grevillea 3(28): 150 (1875) (≡ Humaria microspora (Berk. &amp; M.A. Curtis) Sacc., Sylloge Fungorum 8: 131 (1889)).</p><p>Description: — Ascomata tiny to small, sessile, at first globular and top-flattened with an indented ring-like structure, then the indented ring separating from the surrounding material by the expansion of apothecium and resulting in a flap-like tissue attached to the edge of apothecium or fallen off. Apothecium 7.5–10.5 mm broad, 2–3.5 mm high, cupulate to nearly plane, with an often ruptured margin when mature, arising from a yellowish mycelial pad. Hymenium surface smooth, autumn orange (#F5C040), honey orange (#FFAC2A) to dark persimmon orange (#EC8D32) when fresh, becoming deer orange (# E69754) after dried. External surface relatively rough, yolk orange (#FEDC3D) to sun orange (#FCD742) when fresh, becoming walnut orange (#E9C680) to curry orange (#CDA546) after dried. Context fragile, yellowish to orangish. Odour indistinct. Taste unknown.</p><p>Ascospores ellipsoid to oblong, uniseriate, nearly colourless, thin- to slightly thick-walled, non-septate, smooth, {40/2/2} 6–7 (7.5) [6.63 ± 0.38, 6.50] × 3.5–4.5 [3.84 ± 0.30, 4.00] µm, Q = 1.44–2.00 [1.73 ± 0.13, 1.75] including spore wall, uniguttulate. Asci narrowly cylindrical, operculate, eight-spored, nearly colourless, 75–120 µm in length, with a sporiferous part 41–48 × 6–8 µm when mature, with a crozier at the base. Paraphyses abundant, filiform, yellowish, 4.5–7 µm wide at the middle, septate, unbranched to frequently branched. Subhymenium up to 25.5 µm thick, slightly yellowish to yellowish. Medullary excipulum up to 415 µm thick, composed of a gelatinized textura intricata of yellowish, 6.5–20 µm wide, thick-walled hyphae. Ectal excipulum up to 185 µm thick, composed of a slightly gelatinized textura globulosa, textura angularis to textura epidermoidea of slightly yellowish to yellowish, 10.5–50 × 10–30 µm, thin-walled cells, with abundant hyphae up to 7.5 µm wide at the middle arising from the external surface.</p><p>Habitat and distribution: —Gregarious, on soil in the field or in mushroom cultivation farms. Currently known from Africa (Benin: GenBank No. PQ528032 (nrLSU)), Asia (China), Europe (Italy) and North America (USA) with molecular evidence.</p><p>Collections examined: — CHINA. Yunnan Province: Kunming City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=102.740555&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.1425" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 102.740555/lat 25.1425)">Kunming Botanical Garden</a>, on soil, 25°08'33"N, 102°44'26"E, elevation 1975 m, August 28, 2020, Zhu L. Yang, HKAS112794 ; same location, October 12, 2023, Zhu L. Yang, HKAS131151 ; same location, August 18, 2024, Kun L. Yang, K24072 (HTBM2087 (nrLSU: PV168191; rpb2: PV172438; tef-1α: PV172442)) .</p><p>Notes: —Although a form, namely Acervus epispartius f. albus, has been reported within this species, A. epispartius f. epispartius has vividly coloured ascomata, larger ascospores, longer and wider asci and wider paraphyses, suggesting that these two taxa may actually represent two independent species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/715C87CF973CFFCFFF4FFDE7E211B620	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Lin, Jia Y.;Liu, Zhen-Chao;Li, Guang-Mei;Yang, Zhu L.;Yang, Kun L.	Lin, Jia Y., Liu, Zhen-Chao, Li, Guang-Mei, Yang, Zhu L., Yang, Kun L. (2025): Three new species of Acervus (Ascomycota, Pezizales) from South China. Phytotaxa 700 (1): 73-86, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.700.1.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.700.1.6
