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Bitunicate asco on Betula
    
                    Enrique Rubio,
                19-04-2012 20:37
    
    Do you know this bitunicate ascomycete with inconspicuous inmersed stromata with 1-2 pseudothecia, erumpent trought the bark of Betula small branches?
Spores are inequally two celled and their walls are longitudinally striate (only visible in Melzer). They have some pseudosepta too.
I don't know what genus belongs this fungus
Many thanks again
                                    Alain GARDIENNET,
                                19-04-2012 21:18            
            Re : Bitunicate asco on Betula
                Hi Enrique,
You should look in the Pleomassariaceae. Perhaps it could be Pleomassaria siparia = Splanchnonema siparium but striate ornementation reminds me at other species which occurs on other hosts.
I will research more.
Alain
                
                
                
                
                
                            You should look in the Pleomassariaceae. Perhaps it could be Pleomassaria siparia = Splanchnonema siparium but striate ornementation reminds me at other species which occurs on other hosts.
I will research more.
Alain
                                    Alain GARDIENNET,
                                19-04-2012 21:22            
            Re : Bitunicate asco on Betula
                I agree with René to say it isn't siparia. Personnaly, I thought at S. quercicola (on Quercus) which has striate ascopores, as yours.
Alain
                
                
                
                
                
                            Alain
                                    Alain GARDIENNET,
                                19-04-2012 21:26            
            Re : Bitunicate asco on Betula
                I think now it could be Splanchnonema argus. It occurs on Betula.
I let you verify.
Alain
                
                
                
                                    
                
                
                            I let you verify.
Alain
                                    Chris Yeates,
                                19-04-2012 21:49            
            
            
        
                                    Norbert Heine,
                                20-04-2012 00:42            
             
                Re : Bitunicate asco on Betula
                Hi Enrique,
I'll give you a portrait of Splanchnonema argus and the anamorph Myxocyclus polycistis.
(By the way - fine photo, Chris!)
Some days ago I found this two species together on Betula - Twigs.
The spores of Splanchnonema argus were 60-72 x 14-17µm.
Now you can compare.
Best wishes
Norbert
PS: And here you can read something more:
http://www.ib-pan.krakow.pl/pubs-pdf/Polish%20Botanical%20Journal/2010/PBJ55-2_s373-380.pdf?
                
                                    
                    
                
                
                
                
                            I'll give you a portrait of Splanchnonema argus and the anamorph Myxocyclus polycistis.
(By the way - fine photo, Chris!)
Some days ago I found this two species together on Betula - Twigs.
The spores of Splanchnonema argus were 60-72 x 14-17µm.
Now you can compare.
Best wishes
Norbert
PS: And here you can read something more:
http://www.ib-pan.krakow.pl/pubs-pdf/Polish%20Botanical%20Journal/2010/PBJ55-2_s373-380.pdf?
                                    Enrique Rubio,
                                20-04-2012 16:50            
            Re : Bitunicate asco on Betula
                Many thanks to all
I think my fungus is not S. argus because my ascospores with striate walls are not encapsulated.
I was looked for S. striatutulum and S. quercicola, as Alain and René said, and I think that S. quercicola is a good possibility. Do you know if this fungus has been collected in Europe?
Enrique
                
                
                
                
                
                            I think my fungus is not S. argus because my ascospores with striate walls are not encapsulated.
I was looked for S. striatutulum and S. quercicola, as Alain and René said, and I think that S. quercicola is a good possibility. Do you know if this fungus has been collected in Europe?
Enrique
 
                







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