Genus Chaetarthriomyces Thaxt.

MB#936

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 16: 319 (Thaxter 1931). –

Type species: C. flexatus

Brief description

Monoecious. Receptacle multicelled, consisting of a series of superposed cells forming the main axis which extends into the primary appendage without apparent discontinuity. Antheridia are corner cells of appendage.

Remarks

The genus consists of four species, of which two in Europe, both in Denmark. The most recently described species is C. spiralis (Santamaria 2001a) .

Key to the Danish species

1. Perithecial wall cells arranged in spiral ................................................................ C. spiralis Santam.

– Perithecial walls cells arranged in vertical rows............................ C. crassiappendicatus Scheloske