23-04-2024 21:49
Ethan CrensonHello all, A friend recently found this orange as
23-04-2024 15:18
Lothar Krieglsteiner... but likely a basidiomycete. I hope it is o.k.
22-04-2024 11:52
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová)Hello,I made a loan of a collection of Microstoma
23-04-2024 13:17
Edouard EvangelistiBonjour à tous, Je viens de récolter ce que je
11-01-2022 16:36
Jason KarakehianHi does anyone have a digital copy of Raitviir A (
22-04-2024 20:38
Miguel Ángel RibesGood afternoon.Does anyone know this anamorph?It g
19-04-2024 14:28
B ShelbourneCudoniella tenuispora: Distinctive macro and habit
20-04-2024 16:02
Michel HairaudBonjour,On me fait part, pour diffusion d une list
The apothecia popped out of cracks in a the cone scales when the cone was wet but almost completely disappeared on drying.
Apothecia: elliptical in outline, gelatinous, immersed, bursting through split in surface when moist, retracting again as they dry out. Hymenium pale greyish with whitish pruina; margin darker, brownish grey.
Asci: up to 210µm, tip not bluing in iodine, with 8 ascospores in a fascicle, but not completely aligned.
Ascospores: long, cylindric, multi-septate so the numerous individual cells look more or less square. Brian Spooner reports that they disarticulate into part spores c.4µm long.
Paraphyses: thin-walled, cylindric, very narrow, dichotomously branched twice near base, strongly expanded at apex into one to several, septate, moniliform but rarely branched, agglutinated, clavate cells (4-6.5µm diam); agglutination very strongly blued in Melzer's Iodine.
Lophodermium conigenum and Naemacyclus fimbriatus: ascospores not divided enough, paraphyses wrong (as they are for Sticta spp. Also the paraphysis tips blue in iodine rather than the hymenium base)
Probably not a Stictis. Schizoxylon might be better.
Many thanks for any comments.