20-12-2025 23:08
Patrice TANCHAUDBonsoir, récolte sur sol sablonneux dans l'arriÃ
21-12-2025 09:32
Josep Torres
Hello.A tiny ascomycete found embedded in wood in
20-12-2025 15:47
Mirek GrycHi.These grew on pine wood that was heavily covere
18-12-2025 21:17
Pol DebaenstThe identification took me to Byssonectria deformi
15-12-2025 07:09
Danny Newman
indet. Rutstroemiaceae sp. on unk. fallen leavesMc
19-12-2025 10:10
Patrice TANCHAUDBonjour, récolte réalisée en milieu dunaire, a
18-12-2025 17:23
Bruno Coué
Bonjour,je serais heureux d'avoir votre avis sur c
18-12-2025 18:07
Margot en Geert VullingsThese plumes were found on rotten wood.They strong
2-21-2016 High Rock Park, Staten Island, New York
spore 8um long
is this angiosperm wood or bark?
my guess is Encoelia glauca. This species is difficult to characterize. It has a granular yellowish matter in the excipulum, faintly amyloid apical rings of asci, and lacks a ionomidotic reaction.
I am unaware of American records.
Maybe the spores of your sample are different. European E. glauca has rather narrow spores with some droplets.
Zotto
It was on wood without bark
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Here is a photo of it with Lugols.Â
The fungus has also an anamorph (aggregated pycnidia) of a similar colour, but it seems yours is devoid of it.
Your guess of a Chlorociboria is not too bad indeed, it is actually the relationship that the molecular data from European material suggest.
I have written to Kadri Pärtel about your collection, and she is actually interested in gaining a sequence from it to compare with her European data. The result would indeed be interesting, one never knows how wide a species is distributed, or whether different taxa exist.
Did you keep a herbarium specimen of this and would you be willing to send a part to her? She is working at an estonian university on encoelioid fungi since quite a few years.
Zotto
I kept herbarium specimens, the entire collection in the photo. I am willing to send them to her. Where should I send them?Â
Thank you,
John
Here is her address:
Kadri Pärtel
Chair of Mycology
Department of Botany
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences
University of Tartu
Chemicum
Ravila 14a
50411 Tartu
Estonia
Zotto
I mailed them today.
Thank you