27-06-2025 14:09
Åge OterhalsI found this pyrenomycetous fungi in mountain area
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Jason Karakehian
Hi everyone, I am looking for the following protol
23-06-2025 13:25
Enrique Rubio
I would like to hear your opinion on this Scutelli
25-06-2025 16:56
Philippe PELLICIERBonjour, pensez-vous que S. ceijpii soit le nom co
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Thomas FlammerMy first impression was sth like Rutstromeia, but
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Danny Newman
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Francois Guay
Hi, I found this tiny sulfur yellow asco growing o
22-06-2025 13:52
DirkW
Dear friends,anyone out there with this paper?:DOU
Hi to all:These resupinate stromata grow on wood of Fagus sylvatica. KOH 10% extractable pigments are orange red but peripherically purplish. Asci have an apical apparatus Mlz. negative but bluish in IKI.
Could be H. rubiginosum?
No smell I have noted, perithecia are 375-575 microns high and stromata are small (only 3-4 cm)
Enrique
I guess you studied it in detail because it seemed a bit strange to you. The results of your chromatography are indeed surprising.
I would be glad to see it and I will forward it to Marc to study its HPLC profile.
Thanks in advance,
Jacques
Best wishes
Enrique
I eventually received your specimen, thanks!
I wonder if two different Hypoxylons were not mixed up in your collection because I failed to see any purplish tinge around the orange pigments obtained on a paper with KOH, following your method.
Ascal rings also differ from what you observed in that they turn blue in Melzer and IKI as well.
I first though your fungus might be H. canariense, so far known only from Canary Islands where it is very common, in which I sometimes observed dubious reactions of ascal rings to iodine, but I do think the one you sent me is a depauperate form of H. rubiginosum.
Many undescribed species of Hypoxylon likely are still to be discovered, most of them resembling H. rubiginosum in gross morphology. Keep on screening them!
With best wishes,
Jacques
Enrique