
05-07-2025 12:38
Åge OterhalsI found this pyrenomycetous fungi in pine forest o

04-07-2025 20:12
Hello.A fungus growing on the surface of a trunk o

20-06-2025 08:33
Hello.Small, blackish, mucronated surface grains s

28-06-2025 16:00
Hello.A tiny fungus shaped like globose black grai

04-07-2025 12:43
me mandan el material seco de Galicia (España)

03-07-2025 18:40
me mandas el material seco de Galicia (España) re

03-07-2025 20:08

I found this interesting yellowish asco growing on

01-07-2025 23:37
Hello.A Pleosporal symbiotic organism located and
Apothecia discoid, sessile, outer surface and edge with large stiff hairs, to 1,5 mm, white.
Excipulum from textura globosa-prismatica, cells at the base near globose, 45 x 30, becoming prismatic and smaller to the edge, 17 x 15, edge with the row of clavate cells, 23 x 5; inner layer from excipulum textura porrecta, well expressed at flanks of receptacle, hyphae laying parralel to hymenium surface, 4,5 mk broad; medullary excpl not distinguished (?); outer gelatinose tissue absent; hairs to 400 mk long, 13 mk wide at base, stright or slightly bent, with thick glassy walls (3,5 mk), segmented, narrowing to obtuse tip (5 mk); asci clavate, with stalk, obtuse at tip, clamped, 65,8 (53-72,5) x 8,3 (7,8-8,8), pore with amyloid reaction (KOH, MLZ); paraphyses cylindrical, branched, segmented, 1,3-2 mk broad; spores ellipsoid, with obtuse ends, some curved, with 2-3 large and some small guttules (rehydrated in KOH), 11 (10,5-11,5) x 3 (2,8-3,2).
Growing on dead sphagnum parts, sedge litter, and other miscellaneous litter in wet hollow in the bog.

Apical rings like Sclerotiniaceae, hairs like Torrendiella, but hyaline, habit like Pezoloma , spores & excipulum ???
This would be interesting to take a sequence!
Zotto

Zotto

Wau!
never seen such a creature. Extremely nice and also extremely weird ....