Genus Idiomyces Thaxt.

MB#2481

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28: 162 (Thaxter 1893). –

Type species: I. peyritschii Thaxt. (by monotypy)

Brief description

Monoecious. Receptacle asymmetric, multicelled, with a subdivided cell II giving rise to a lateral row of cells supporting a mass of secondary appendages, some of them fertile and consisting of several superposed antheridia with the efferent necks pointing laterally. Perithecia (one to a few for each thallus) with well-developed basal cells and an outer wall with four unequal wall cells for each vertical row.

Remarks

Monotypic. Related to Diplomyces, Sandersoniomyces, Symplectromyces and Teratomyces, Benjamin (1983) did a complete study of this genus.