Microthecium compressum Udagawa & Cain, Can. J. Bot. 47: 1921. 1970.

Marin-Felix, Yasmina, Guarro, Josep, ano-Lira, Jose F., Garcia, Dania, iller, Andrew N. & Stchigel, Alberto M., 2018, Melanospora (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) and its relatives, MycoKeys 44, pp. 81-122 : 81

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scientific name

Microthecium compressum Udagawa & Cain, Can. J. Bot. 47: 1921. 1970.
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Microthecium compressum Udagawa & Cain, Can. J. Bot. 47: 1921. 1970.

Sphaerodes compressa (Udagawa & Cain) P.F. Cannon & D. Hawksw., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 84: 145. 1982.

Notes.

This species is distinguished by the production of non-ostiolate ascomata and citriform, bilaterally flattened ascospores, with the narrow faces coarsely reticulate and the widest faces smooth or nearly so, along with the production of a phialidic asexual morph.