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05-11-2025 11:33

Pierre Repellin

Bonjpur,J'ai trouvé, sur une hampe florale d'Alli

04-11-2025 09:07

Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A suspected Hymenoscyphus sprouting on a thi

04-11-2025 12:43

Edvin Johannesen Edvin Johannesen

Hi! One more found on old Populus tremula log in O

04-11-2025 14:53

Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.Very small, globose, mucronate perithecia, b

03-11-2025 21:34

Edvin Johannesen Edvin Johannesen

These tiny (0.4-0.5 mm diam.), whitish, short-stip

03-11-2025 19:41

David Chapados David Chapados

Hi,Does anyone knows which genus could this be? G

28-10-2025 15:37

Carl Farmer

I'd be grateful for any suggestions for this strik

03-11-2025 16:30

Hans-Otto Baral Hans-Otto Baral

Hello I want to ask you if you have found this ye

01-11-2025 09:14

Francis Maggi

Bonjour,Trouvé sur Xanthoria parietina à Valdebl

28-10-2025 19:33

Nicolas Suberbielle Nicolas Suberbielle

Bonjour à tous,Je voudrais votre avis sur cette r

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Tropical asco
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová), 23-06-2015 21:32
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová)Hello,
this fungus was found in a tropical lowland dipterocarpous forest of East Kalimantan. It was a single fruitbody partly hiden in the soil, irregularly shaped, beige, hollow, with two holes, measuring 26 mm in the broadest part.
It has a strange structure under microscope, quite difficult to read for me. I can see there a layer of globose-angular, thick-walled cells (20-43 micrometers, the walls up to 2 micrometers) and a layer of thin cylindrical cells running in different ways (3.5-7 micrometers broad).
Spores are yellowish, globose, ornamented with isolated warts, tubercles and high ridges resembling wings (up to 6 micrometers high), measuring 14.5-15.5 micrometers without ornament, 22-25 including ornament.
Asci are non-amyloid, octosporic, uniseriate.
What could it be? It resembles Ruhlandiella with the spores, but the asci are not amyloid and the shape is "wrong". Another idea was Hydnotrya. I really don´t know.
Thanks in advance for any ideas,
Zuzana
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Nicolas VAN VOOREN, 23-06-2015 23:06
Nicolas VAN VOOREN
Re : Tropical asco
Hi Zuzana.
I think this is close to Lazuardia lobata, a tropical cup-fungus. I published a paper on this species in Ascomycete.org journal with M. Pélissier who collected it in Mayotte Island.
The main difference with your collection is the spore size.
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová), 24-06-2015 08:41
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová)
Re : Tropical asco

Thank you very much for advice! Yes, my spores are larger and have richer ornament. The shape of fruitbody is different too - maybe it´s not visible well in the photo, but the fungus from Borneo had holes, but it was closed (little bit potato-shaped). I also didn´t notice bluish colour in the fruitbody.


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Nicolas VAN VOOREN, 24-06-2015 11:05
Nicolas VAN VOOREN
Re : Tropical asco
Can you describe the ascus base? Is it forked?
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová), 24-06-2015 17:50
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová)
Re : Tropical asco
Although I made really many preparates in different media, it was hard to find a whole ascus. The basis seems to be simple. I will try to make more attempts, but this fungus is really difficult to observe for me.
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Nicolas VAN VOOREN, 24-06-2015 18:24
Nicolas VAN VOOREN
Re : Tropical asco
Well, this is not forked like ascus base of Pulvinula or Lazuardia. Can you send to me a part of the collection to make a deep study?