
25-04-2025 22:48

Hello,I hope everything is going well. I couple mo

24-04-2025 21:35
Thorben HülsewigHi there,last week i could found this asco on an S

25-04-2025 17:24
Stefan BlaserHi everybody, This collection was collected by J

25-04-2025 09:33
Ascomata shaped like deformed black grains, measur

24-04-2025 21:53

... 15.7.24 in the Alps. There were many asci with

23-04-2025 20:16

Good afternoon Looking for Octospores / Lamprospo

24-04-2025 15:03
Henri KoskinenHello, I collected this Lasiobolus 22.04. near Hel

23-04-2025 19:58

I found this interesting Orbilia sp. one year ago

22-04-2025 10:37
François BartholomeeusenAlso found on April 18, 2025 on an old seed-pod of

Voici une helvelle intéressante, récoltée parmi des mousses très humides, dans une tourbière de montagne (alt. 1100 m). Les caractères microscopiques sont compatibles avec H. elastica (cf. PDF), mais macroscopiquement cela me semble différent... Certains spécimens peuvent devenir très luxuriants.
P.-A. Moreau m'a dit qu'il a déjà récolté plusieurs fois ce taxon, toujours dans un milieu similaire.
Quelqu'un a-t-il déjà récolté cette helvelle ?
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Here is an interesting helvella, collected among wet mosses, in a peat in mountain (alt. 1100 m). Microscopic features are compatible with H. elastica, but macroscopically it seems different... Some specimens could become very luxuriant.
P.-A. Moreau told me that he already collected several times this taxon, always in a similar environment.
Is there anyone who has already gathered such a Helvella species?

Neven

I do not recognize H. latispora in my collection, but I do not reject this hypothesis. The previous collections of H. latispora that I studied were always a bit furfuraceous (with small chains emerging from the ectal excipulum) and the outside colour were white. The ecology is also different.
You can see a good photograph, page 43, in my article published in Bulletin mycologique et botanique Dauphiné-Savoie #199.
It's interesting to note that on the Italian forum Acta Fungorum, Mario Filippa think my collection could be the same fungus that he names H. stevensii.

As I'm not at home at the moment I cannot check some details but as long as I remember I considered H. stevensii to be the syn. of H. latispora. Had a number of transitions between hairy and smooth vestiture on both pileal and/or stipal exc. surface. Also the exc. surface colour may vary considerably (due to quantity and extent of diffuse cell pigment....
But - I will check back later (soon I'll be +/- home and finally out from extra rush for a week or two).
Neven