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Sarcoscypha look-alike
Nico Dam,
04-05-2022 22:14

Any ideas about this species?
https://old.waarneming.nl/waarneming/view/44717338
Smooth, ellipsoid spores, 2 guttules, ca. 15x8 mu
Asci operculate, J-, 8-sp.
Outside without differentiated hairs, locally loose hyphae
Grows on sandy soil along a lake shore
Thanks,
Nico
Stip Helleman,
04-05-2022 22:36
Re : Sarcoscypha look-alike
Hoi Nico,
is it perhaps a Aleuria species?
Stip
Stip Helleman,
05-05-2022 06:32
Re : Sarcoscypha look-alike
Bad idea with smooth spores, I overlooked your note and looked at the waarneming
Stip
Nicolas VAN VOOREN,
05-05-2022 08:50
Re : Sarcoscypha look-alike
Hello
Are you sure about the spore ornamentation?
This looks very much like an Aleuria species, as said Stip.
Are you sure about the spore ornamentation?
This looks very much like an Aleuria species, as said Stip.
Mirek Gryc,
05-05-2022 21:01
Re : Sarcoscypha look-alike
Hello
I do not have my own photos of young aleuria but on linked pages, you can watch what immature spores of this species look like,
https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/aleuria-aurantia.php
https://www.aphotofungi.com/asomycetes_aleuria_aurantia.html
I do not have my own photos of young aleuria but on linked pages, you can watch what immature spores of this species look like,
https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/aleuria-aurantia.php
https://www.aphotofungi.com/asomycetes_aleuria_aurantia.html
Young spores do not have ornamentation. Did you study free spores?
Mirek
Nico Dam,
06-05-2022 22:01
Re : Sarcoscypha look-alike
Thanks for all your replies. I must admit having looked at the spores only in 3% KOH (works fine for Cortinarius, my main occupancy...)
See attachment for a photo of spores in cotton blue (lactic acid); smooth.
BTW: I have one fruitbody as exsiccate here, about 30 mm diameter.
Greetings,
Nico
PS
The species my also be too red for an Aleuria.
