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25-01-2026 23:23

Tomaz Vucko Tomaz Vucko

Hello! I found this species that resembles Delitsc

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Tomaz Vucko Tomaz Vucko

Hello!How would you name this species? Most perith

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Leandro Sánchez Leandro Sánchez

Sur branche de feuillus, jusqu'à 22 mm diamètre,

05-02-2026 15:07

Vasileios Kaounas Vasileios Kaounas

Found on a fallen needle of Pinus halepensis, diam

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Stefan Blaser

Hello everybody, Any help on this one would be mu

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Lothar Krieglsteiner Lothar Krieglsteiner

.. 20.7.25, in subarctic habital. The liverwort i

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Margot en Geert Vullings

On a barkless poplar branch, we found hairy discs

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Andgelo Mombert Andgelo Mombert

Bonjour,Sur thalle de Lobaria pulmonaria.Conidiome

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Andgelo Mombert Andgelo Mombert

Bonjour,Sur le thalle de Peltigera praetextata, ne

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Michel Hairaud Michel Hairaud

Bonjour, Cette hypocreale parasite en nombre les

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Phaeohelotium on deciduous wood?
Oskari Virtanen, 29-12-2025 09:38
Hi,
could anyone help me identify this, I suspect Phaeohelotium or maybe Hymenoscyphus? I was thinking something along the lines of Leptodontidium (/P.) trabinellum or P. fulvidulum but I couldn't get the asci or spore size to fit.

- On rotten, decorticated deciduous wood (Betula or Populus), damp mixed forest, Southwest Finland (Turku), December 2025.
- Diameter approx. 1.5 mm, growing gregariously in a 20 cm area, almost sessile.
- Asci 8-spored, IKI+, with croziers, (105.4) 115 - 124.8 (127.4) × (6.6) 6.8 - 7.7 (8.8) µm.
- Living spores in water (10.3) 10.6 - 13.8 (14.2) × (3.5) 3.8 - 4.6 (4.9) µm, Q = (2.3) 2.6 - 3.3 (3.4); N = 25, occasionally 1-septate.
- Paraphyses rarely exceeding asci, with some droplets, apices never swollen, 1.5 - 2.8 µm at the apex.


I'm quite new to asco microscopy so please let me know if you need anything else. :)


Best,
Oskari

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Hans-Otto Baral, 29-12-2025 09:46
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Re : Phaeohelotium on deciduous wood?
Ascus and spore size is not the only critical detail, but look at the apical ring of the Calycina type. Can you exclude Calycina citrina?
Nicolas VAN VOOREN, 29-12-2025 09:46
Nicolas VAN VOOREN
Re : Phaeohelotium on deciduous wood?
In my opinion, the amyloid reaction of asci is of Calycina-type, so this excludes Phaeohelotium or Hymenoscyphus...
Oskari Virtanen, 29-12-2025 09:58
Re : Phaeohelotium on deciduous wood?
The microscopy does indeed fit C. citrina, and looking at the descriptions I see no good reason to exclude it. I'm used to seeing it a much brighter yellow, so I mindlessly went past it. Also good to know that this type of reaction is common to Calycina. Thank you both!