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Bernard CLESSE
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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
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?
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






