Hi, I found in the Uppsala herbarium a collection from Kenya, with stems of Lobelia (or Euphorbiaceae ?), made by Owe Eriksson in 1968. It contains at least two apparently interesting fungi, so I thought to post it here.

The first fungus is a nectriod one, a Bionectriaceae I believe. It has densely gregarious groups of perithecia, superficial, flattened (probably because of being dry), with a little papilla, up to 0.5 mm in diam, orange-brown, unchanged in KOH, covered by hairs, except for in the apex, up to 130 µm. Perithecial wall 80 µm thick, composed by an outer region composed by 3-5 layers of subglobose hyphae, and an inner region of flattened cells, ca 10-15 µm. Asci clavate, with an apical inconscpicuos ring. Ascospores 27-32 x 7.5-9 µm, hyaline, curved, 2-celled, striate.

It reminds of the photos of Ijuhya antillana in Ascofrance. The perithecial wall structure, the presence of hairs and the spores seem to fit. I have used the Ijuhya key by Lechat & Courtecuisse (2010) and it keys out as I. chilensis, but I haven´t done more research. There are some whitish patches in the substrate that might be the anamorph, but I haven´t checked.

Any opinion? More data needed? Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Ibai.