| Remarks (internal): | The characteristic pits are most easily observed in young ascospores before they become brown; fully pigmented ascospores may be mistaken for Sordaria Ces. & De Not., which has smooth ascospores that are surrounded by a gelatinous sheath. In Neurospora Shear & B. O. Dodge the ascospores are longitudinally striate.
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| Description: | GELASINOSPORA Dowding
Ascoma a nonstromatic, ostiolate, obpyriform perithecium, often covered with dark brown, short mycelial hairs; wall 3-layered, opaque; cells of outer layer pseudo-parenchymatous, dark brown, with slightly thickened walls, cells of middle layer large, hyaline, angular, merging to flattened toward the interior, cells of inner layer hyaline, thin-walled, flattened. Centrum in young ascomata containing pseudoparenchyma lining interior of wall and a basal mass of pseudoparenchyma cells bearing paraphyses; paraphyses in young ascomata filamentous, becoming vesiculose when old. Asci unitunicate, cylindrical, with truncate apex and distinct, nonamyloid apical ring, short-stipitate, 4-8-spored, spores uniseriate in ascus. Ascospores 1-celled, olivaceous when young, then brown to blackish, ellipsoid to oval or subglobose, with a pitted or reticulate surface, with 1-2 germ pores, often somewhat inaequilateral. (Fig. 3F-H).
Anamorph: None reported.
Habitat: On seeds, in soil and dung.
Representative species: Gelasinospora calospora V. Mouton) C. Moreau & Mme. Moreau.
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