Dear Miguel-Angel

I canot help but I would like to see the living paraphyses with their violet contents, also the turgescent asci.

Zotto

Here they are, Zotto.

Hi.
Did you test the reaction of a small piece in HCl? It could be a good test for comparison with Smardaea species.

No, sorry, Nicolas, but I don't know that reaction, could you explain it?, please.

Anyway, the only Smardea with globose spores in the papers I have is S. planchonis, but I see another guttules pattern in this species.

Thank you.

HCl dissolves pigments and this produces a red reaction of the flesh. I'm not sure that pigments present in Marcelleina species give the same reaction. This is just to test ;)

Only with fresh apos? Macro-reaction, without micro?

Thanks.

Sorry for the delay ... I hadn't HCl.

Completley negative reaction with HCl 35%, nor macro, nor micro.

Any other idea?

Thank you

Thanks for the test. So Smardaea is excluded in my opinion, and the hypothesis of M. benkertii seems good.
Another reference:
Di Meo A. & Lalli G. 1993. Marcelleina benkertii, un fungo a coppa a spore sferiche nuovo per l'Italia. Micologia e Vegetazione Mediterranea, 8 (1) : 3-8.

Your wellcome, Nicolas

I can't get the paper in the internet and I don't know anyone who has it, anyone have it?

Di Meo A. & Lalli G. 1993. Marcelleina benkertii, un fungo a coppa a spore sferiche nuovo per l'Italia. Micologia e Vegetazione Mediterranea, 8 (1) : 3-8.

Thank you.

Hi again friends

Finally I got the paper and re-study this species. Reading that paper and Moravec 1987 I had doubts with genus Greletia, and I have extract this differences between both:

Pigment
* Greletia: purplish in the asci, ascospores, paraphyses and excipulum. Soluble in KOH.
* Marcelleina: violet-purplish only in paraphyses. Not soluble in KOH.
Stipe
* Greletia: substipitate.
* Marcelleina: non stipitate.
Medullary excipulum
* Greletia: composed of a loose textura intricata well differentiated from the outer layer which consists of a textura globulosa.
* Marcelleina: composed of a textura intricata to textura prismatica or textura globulosa-angularis, the hyphae being densely arranged and inflated.
Ectal extipulum
* Greletia: textura globulosa with wall cells pigmented in purplish. 
* Marcelleina: textura globulosa with wall cells pigmented in light brown. 
Spores
* Greletia: contain purplish pigment and are sculptured (only visible with SEM).
* Marcelleina: hyalines and sculptured, with the exception of M. benkertii.

With this table I think there is no doubt this species belongs to Marcelleina genus, and the only possible species is M. benkertii, but I have a little doubt about the interpretation on the medullary excipulum, because I see a textura cylindrical perpendicular to the hymenium to intricata, more near to Greletia description than Marcelleina. In the attached pictures it is visible.

Thank you for your opinion.

My info is that Greletia is a synonym of Smardaea, but I really am not familiar with these fungi :-(

Zotto

Yes, I think so too, perphaps I must wrote Smardaea instead Greletia, sorry, now I see in MycoBank and IndexFungorum than the current name is Smardaea.

Thank you.