02-01-2026 17:43
MARICEL PATINOHi there, although I couldn't see the fruitbody, I
01-01-2026 18:35
Original loamy soil aside a artificial lake.The co
31-12-2025 19:27
Collected from loamy soil, at waterside (completel
30-12-2025 16:44
Pascal DucosBonjour,Une anamorphe rose stipitée, très nombre
30-12-2025 17:14
Bernard CLESSE
Bonjour à toutes et tous,Pourriez-vous aider Albe
I found this bitunicate ascomycete growing on dead leaves of Eriophorum angustifolium.
Pseudothecia are immersed, ca 100-150 µm diam
Asci are bitunicate, ovoid, 8-spored, 38-57 x 22-29 µm (only 2 asci measured). Sometimes immature and post-mature asci are present in the same pseudothecium.
Spores are mostly 22-25 x 5-6(-7) µm, in one sample rather larger (<31 µm long). They are 1-septate, slightly constricted at septum, and sometimes splitting at the septum into 2 parts. Spores are hyaline, becoming dark brown when old, with 2 large oil bodies/cell when fresh, and with a thick gelatinous sheath. The spore wall appears to be minutely verruculose in old spores.
I think it belongs in the Pseudosphaeriaceae. I had wondered about Monascostroma innumerosum but the thick gelatinous spore sheath seems to rule out this species and suggests Wettsteinina. The closest fit in Shoemaker & Babcock's 1987 paper on Wettsteinina is probably W. junci, but the description doesn't fit in all respects, e.g. spore dimensions are given as 26-31 x 9-11 µm (i.e. rather larger than in my specimen). Another possibility is W. waltraudae, described by Scheuer and not included in Shoemaker & Babcock.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
Thanks
Marcus




