31-03-2026 21:18
Miguel Ángel Ribes
Good evening. oes anyone have the original descrip
31-03-2026 20:57
Stefan BlaserHello everybody, I hope somebody can help me with
26-03-2026 15:31
Åke Widgren
Hello,I found this one in October last year, on r
31-03-2026 16:20
Mlcoch Patrik
Hello, Please about help with determination. On
31-03-2026 08:19
Bernard CLESSE
Bonjour à toutes et tous,Pourriez-vous m'aider à
30-03-2026 12:03
William Slosse
Hello all,On 27/03/26, in Kraaiveld in Wingene (Be
25-03-2026 10:35
Hulda Caroline HolteHello,I collected this species growing on a dead b
unknown chaetomium
Joop van der Lee,
13-11-2013 14:20
Found on horse dung also found on sheep dung in the same area.Perithium is covered with non septated, non crustated, thickwalled curled hairs 2.7u8-3.48 um wide
Upper part has rigid stiff and curled, septated thick walled hairs 4.27-5.22 um wide.
Asci: 8-spored, 42.39x11.24 um
Spores: lemon shaped, 8.51-9.38xs7.41-7.96x6.32-6.91 um
When young they have an olive-green colour.
It also has a funnel to assist in releasing spores, when process is completed only the fruitbody with rigid non curling hairs remain.
Norbert Heine,
13-11-2013 17:45
Re : unknown Chaetomium
Hello Joop,
species of the genus Chaetomium are difficult to determinate!
It needs a lot of literature like Arx et al - The Ascomycete Genus Chaetomium, 1986 or Doveri - An update on the genus Chaetomium, PdM 29, 2008.
And it needs a lot of experience and patience.
Even then the determination is not easy!
There are some species with nearly the same spore size and similar hairs!
Maybe that your species is Ch. crispatum, but Ch. convolutum is also an option.
The common Ch. bostrychodes has similar, but slightly smaller spores.
An updated world wide key you can find in the latest work by Francesco Doveri.
http://www.mycosphere.org/pdfs/MC4_4_No17.pdf
Best wishes
Norbert
species of the genus Chaetomium are difficult to determinate!
It needs a lot of literature like Arx et al - The Ascomycete Genus Chaetomium, 1986 or Doveri - An update on the genus Chaetomium, PdM 29, 2008.
And it needs a lot of experience and patience.
Even then the determination is not easy!
There are some species with nearly the same spore size and similar hairs!
Maybe that your species is Ch. crispatum, but Ch. convolutum is also an option.
The common Ch. bostrychodes has similar, but slightly smaller spores.
An updated world wide key you can find in the latest work by Francesco Doveri.
http://www.mycosphere.org/pdfs/MC4_4_No17.pdf
Best wishes
Norbert