Recent unusual Iowa collections of members of the Hypocreaceae and Clavicipitaceae are reported. Scoleconectria polythalama (Berk.) Seaver on Syringa and Fraxinus, Nectria coccinea Fr. on Juglans nigra L., Nectria verrucosa (Schw.) Sacc. on Marus alba L., Calonectria diminuta (Berk.) Berl. & Vogl., Hypocrea citrina (Pers.) Fr., Hypocrea patella Cke. and Pk. are reported for the first time. Thyronectrioidea chrysogramma (Ell. and Ev.) Seaver on Ulmus americana L. is the first report of this species on this host from Iowa. In addition observations on the life cycles of Scoleconectria scolecospora (Bref.) Seaver and Cordyceps clavulata Schw. are made

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Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of ScienceVolume 69 | Annual Issue Article 291962A Preliminary Survey of the Iowa Species ofHypocreaceae and ClavicipitaceaeLois H. TiffanyIowa State UniversityJoseph C. GilmanIowa State UniversityCopyright © Copyright 1962 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/piasThis Research is brought to you for free and open access by UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Proceedings of the Iowa Academyof Science by an authorized editor of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact scholarworks@uni.edu.Recommended CitationTiffany, Lois H. and Gilman, Joseph C. (1962) "A Preliminary Survey of the Iowa Species of Hypocreaceae and Clavicipitaceae,"Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science: Vol. 69: No. 1 , Article 29.Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol69/iss1/291962] PLANTING-JIG 173 shift the planting guide and plant the alternate rows (Figure 2). At closer spacings, however, where there is not room to walk easily between rows, it is desirable to plant both species concur-rently and thus have completely clear footing on one side of the planting guide. Color coding helps avoid enors, especially when planting mixed plots. \Ve used a red spray paint to color alternate pegs on the side rails, and one set of holes in the planting guide, i.e., so red holes went over red pegs. A square partitioned polyethylene cleaning bucket works well for carrying two species of seedlings in making mixed plantings. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Mr. Ronald Parkison, Student Research Assistant, who helped in construction of the original jig, and subjected it to the acid test. A Preliminary Survey of the Iowa Species of Hypocreaceae and Clavicipitaceae1 LOIS H. TIFFANY AND JOSEPH c. GILMAN Abstract. Recent unusual Iowa collections of members of d1c Hypocrc:acea·-e and Chvicipitaceae are reported. Scolecon-cctr;u polythalmna (Berk.) Seaver on Syringa and Fraxinus, .Vectria coccinea Fr. on ]ttglans nigra L., Nectria verrucosa (Schw.) San;. on Marus alba L., Calonectria diminuta (Berk.) Berl. & Vogl., llypocrea citrina (Pers.) Fr., Hypocrea patella Cke. and Pk. arc reported for the first time. Th11ron-ectrioid!'a rhrusogwm1,ia (Ell. <1nd Ev.) Seaver on Ulmus mnericana L. is the first report of this species on this host from Iowa. In addition observations on the life cycles of Sculeconectria scolecospora ( Brd.) Seaver and Cordyceps clavulata Schw. are made. The Hypocreaceae and Clavicipitaceae \Vere formerly mem-bers of the order Hypocreales at the time that the members of this order were those fungi with bright-colored perithecial walls. Seaver, ( 1909a, 1909b, 1910a, 1910b, 1911) whose treatment of the group recognized two families, the Nectriaceae for those forms in which the perithecia were non-stromatic or formed up-on a reduced stromatic cushion; and the Hypocreaceac with the perithecia submerged in a stroma. As the emphasis in mycology changed from the condition of the perithecial wall to the type of the centrum of the perithecium, the Nectriaceae and Hypocreaceae were united into a single family and the Clavicipitaceae were transferred to the Xylariales 1 Journal Paper No. J-4360 of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experi-ment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 110. 1Tiffany and Gilman: A Preliminary Survey of the Iowa Species of Hypocreaceae and ClavPublished by UNI ScholarWorks, 1962174 row A ACADEMY OF SCIENCE [Vol. 69 or following the suggestion 0f N annfeldt ( 1932) raised to the rank of separate order, Clavicipitales. The Hypocreaceae are characterized by an aparaphysate cen-trum with pseudoparaphyses growing down from the apex of the ascoma. The ascomatal wall is thin and difficult to see, hence has been the subject of controversy, several investigators hav-ing denied its existence. Miller, ( 1949) however, affirms the presence of a wall in Nectria, Hypocrea, Thyronectria and Hypomyces. His findings were confirmed by Hanlin ( 1961) in his study of N ectria gliocladioides Smalley and Hansen. The Clavicipitaceae have perithecia with the paraphyses arising laterally from the walls but disappearing prior to the maturing of the ascospores. The ascospores are thread-like, sept-ate, and often break up into separate cells. The asci have a thickened cap, with a pore through which the spores may be discharged. Miller ( 1949) states that they more frequently are discharged by the tearing off of the entire cap. The c-ommon genera are Claviceps, Cordyceps and Epichloe. The Iowa Hypocreales were summarized by Miss Fitzgerald ( 1949). Since that publication collections have been made from several new hosts and of several hitherto uncollected species. Problems of nomenclature and synonymy are also rather frequent at both the generic and specific levels. Seaver ( 1909a etc.) has placed Thyronectria xanthoxylii (Pk.) Ell. & Ev. and Thyronectria virens Hark. in synonymy with Thyronectria pyr-rhochlora ( Auers.) Sacc. Our specimens on Prunus serotina and on Rhus sp. have been referred to T. pyrrhochlora. A second species of Thyronectria, T. berolinensis ( Sacc.) Seaver was collected from Prunus americana Marsh and Prunus sp. In this paper N ectria has been accepted for those species with the perithecia clustered on a reduced stroma in contrast to Dialonectria of which the species have the perithecia produced singly. Other species that have not hitherto been collected from Iowa are Scoleconectria polythalama (Berk.) Seaver on Syringa and Fraxinus (Fig. 3); Nectria coccinea Fr. on ]uglans nigra L. (Fig.13) and Nectria verrucosa (Schw.) Sacc. on Morus rubra L. (Fig. 10, 11), Calonectria diminuta (Berk.) Berl. & Vogl. {cf. N. A. F. 2548) (Fig. 4, 5), Hypocrea citrina (Pers.) Fr. (Fig. 12,14) Hypocrea patella Cke. and Pk. (Fig. 15,16). Thy-ronectrioidea chrysogramma (Ell. & Ev.) Seaver (Fig. 7,8) was collected on Ulmus americana L., a new host for this fungus in Iowa. Observations worthy of comment were made on the life cycles of Scoleconectria scolecospora ( Bref.) Seaver (Fig. 1) and 2Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, Vol. 69 [1962], No. 1, Art. 29https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol69/iss1/291962] Figure 1. Figure 2. Figura 3. Figure 4. Figura 5. Figure 6 . Figura 7. Figura 8. Figure 9. HYPOCREACEAE AND CLAVICIPITACEAE Scoleconectria scolocospora p erithecia. Scolecanectria scolecospo1·a ascu s and budding ascospore. Scoleconectria polythalama ascus, Calonectria diminuta p erithecia. Calonecfria diniinuta asci. Thyronectroldea ch111sogramma p erithecia. Thyronectroidea cllrysogramma ascospore!!I. Thyronectria pyN'hochlora perithecia. Tryronectria pyrrhochlora asci. 175 ' 3Tiffany and Gilman: A Preliminary Survey of the Iowa Species of Hypocreaceae and ClavPublished by UNI ScholarWorks, 1962176 Figure 10. Figure 11. Figure 12. Figure 13. IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE [Vol. 69 Nectria ver1ucosa peritheLia. Nectria verrucosa ascospores. Hypocrea citrina stroma. Nectria coccinea ascus. Figure 14. Figure 15. Figure 16. H ypocrea citrina ascus. Hypocrea patella stroma. Hypocrea patella ascospores. 4Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, Vol. 69 [1962], No. 1, Art. 29https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol69/iss1/291962] HYPOCREACEAE AND CLAVICIPITACEAE 177 Cordyceps clavulata Schw. The ascospores of the former are illustrated in Ellis and Everhart ( 1892) as large four-celled spores, each cell filled with ;mmerous very small allantospores. Our observations (Fig. 2) would indicate that these allantospores are external rather than internal and arise as blastospores from the ascospore cells. In the second case Seaver describes the clavate stroma of C. clavulata as sterile. One collection of this fungus showed the club-shaped stromata covered with a layer of conidiophores producing conidia. This stage would be referrable to the imperfect genus Isaria, as described by Pettit ( 1895). Fitzgerald ( 1949) considered Hypocrea sulphurea ( Schw.) Sacc. and H. citrina (Pers.) Fr. as synonymous. Our collections include specimens sufficiently different from one another to convince us of the reality of the two species. We have followed Seaver in the case of Hypornyces apicu-latus Peck. Our specimen closely conforms to the description in his treatment of the species. H ypomyces ochraceus (Pers.) Tul., a species whose description closely resembles that of H. apicu-latus, cannot be used since the material upon which the species is based has been lost. In 1952 Dingley ( 1952) transferred Calonectria polythalama (Berk.) Sacc. ( Scoleconectria polythalama (Berk.) Seaver) to Thyronectria pseudotrichia (Berk.) Seeler but states "material determined by Seaver ( 1909) as Scoleconectria polythalama appears to be a different species." Our collection agrees with the Seaver material. Literature Cited Dingley, J. M. 19.52. The Hypocreales of New Zealand IV: The genera Calonectria, Gibberella, and Thyronectria. Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zea-land 79:40.3-411. Ellis, J. B. and B. M. Everhart. 1892. The North American Pyrenomycetes. 793p. Newfield, N. J. Fitzgerald, Ina S. 1949. Hypocreales of Iowa. State Univ. of Iowa. Studies in Natural History. 19 ( 2) :3-32. Hanlin, R. T. 1961. Studies in the genus Nectria II. Morphology of N. gliocladioides. Amer. }our. Bot. 48:900-908. Miller, J. H. 1949. A revision of the classification of the ascomycetes with special emphasis on the pyrenomycetcs. Mycologia 41:99-127. Nannfeldt, J. A. 1932. Studien ueber die Morphologie und Systematik der nichtlichenisterten inoperculaten Discomyceten. Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsala IV. 8: 1-368. Pettit, H. H. 1895. Studies in artificial cultures of entomogenous fungi. Cordyceps clavulata. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 97 :341-344. Seaver, F. J .. 1909a. The Hy_pocreales of North America I. Mycologia 1:41-76. 1909h. The Hypoc1ealcs of i'!orth America II. Mycologia 1:177-207. 1910a. The Hypocreales of North America III. Mycologia 2:48-93. 1910b. Mypocreales. North American Flora 3( 1): 1-56. 1911. The Hypocreales of North America IV. Mycologia 3:207-230. 5Tiffany and Gilman: A Preliminary Survey of the Iowa Species of Hypocreaceae and ClavPublished by UNI ScholarWorks, 1962

A Preliminary Survey of the Iowa Species of Hypocreaceae and Clavicipitaceae

Recent unusual Iowa collections of members of the Hypocreaceae and Clavicipitaceae are reported. Scoleconectria polythalama (Berk.) Seaver on Syringa and Fraxinus, Nectria coccinea Fr. on Juglans nigra L., Nectria verrucosa (Schw.) Sacc. on Marus alba L., Calonectria diminuta (Berk.) Berl. \u26 Vogl., Hypocrea citrina (Pers.) Fr., Hypocrea patella Cke. and Pk. are reported for the first time. Thyronectrioidea chrysogramma (Ell. and Ev.) Seaver on Ulmus americana L. is the first report of this species on this host from Iowa. In addition observations on the life cycles of Scoleconectria scolecospora (Bref.) Seaver and Cordyceps clavulata Schw. are made

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