04-11-2025 09:07
Hello.A suspected Hymenoscyphus sprouting on a thi
                                    04-11-2025 12:43
                Edvin Johannesen
                Hi! One more found on old Populus tremula log in O
                                    03-11-2025 21:34
                Edvin Johannesen
                These tiny (0.4-0.5 mm diam.), whitish, short-stip
                                    28-10-2025 15:37
Carl FarmerI'd be grateful for any suggestions for this strik
                                    03-11-2025 16:30
                Hans-Otto Baral
                Hello I want to ask you if you have found this ye
                                    28-10-2025 19:33
                Nicolas Suberbielle
                Bonjour à tous,Je voudrais votre avis sur cette r
                                    31-10-2025 09:19
                Lothar Krieglsteiner
                Can somebody provide me with a file of:Rogerson CT
Bonsoir tousthe 'foam-cakes' which can develop in fast flowing streams are a very interesting habitat for the so-called 'Ingoldian Fungi'.
Examples of some of the often distinctive conidia found can be seen here:
http://www.ascofrance.com/search_recolte/3964
http://www.ascofrance.com/search_recolte/3943
http://www.ascofrance.com/search_recolte/3010
Amongst these "aquatic hyphomycetes" one often sees diatoms and other algae, lepidopteran wing scales, pollen etc.; and also chance fungal spores from unknown fungi (which may or may not be aquatic in origin). Normally one ignores these, but occasionally one finds something so striking there may be a hope of getting an identification, even from a single spore. Here is an example of this and I am hoping that such a distinctive spore (which is surely an ascospore - Pleosporales or similar?) will be recognised by someone here. Notable are the large size of the spore and the very distinctive hyaline tips at each end (which are not formed within a single cell - the terminal cells are part-coloured). It may not be evident from the photograph, but the spore is 8-septate.
As ever any suggestions would be very welcome.
Chris
could be an ascospore of Trematosphaeria hydrela.
Best wishes,
Gernot
Exactly !
It's more common to find conidias of the anamorphic stages, ingoldian fungi, but sometimes there are ascospores of the sexual stage. One can also find non-aquatical spores.
Alain
                Hi Chris and Gernot,
I fully agree with Gernot: this should be the spore of Trematosphaeria hydrela! I quite often found these species on deciduous wood in rivulets.
Regards from Lothar
                