25-11-2025 14:24
Thomas Læssøehttps://svampe.databasen.org/observations/10490522
25-11-2025 11:03
Mick PeerdemanHi all,One of my earliest microscopy attempts, so
24-11-2025 15:23
Arnold BüschlenHallo, auf einer offenen Kiesfläche am Rande ein
23-11-2025 11:16
Bohan JiaHi, I found small discs growing on dead stem of
21-11-2025 10:56
Christopher Engelhardt
Very small (~0,5 mm) white ascos, found yesterday
Calycina claroflava?
Di Napier,
25-09-2023 11:04
Hans-Otto Baral,
25-09-2023 11:15
Re : Calycina claroflava?
The uploaded images are much too small to see or read something. Since you mounted in lethal media you cannot be sure with spore septation inside the asci, this needs to be checked in living asci. Negative IKI reaction and absence of croziers are essential, and living spores and their contents would be welcome.
Di Napier,
25-09-2023 11:40
Re : Calycina claroflava?
Thank you for the very helpful reply. The photos were reduced as I didn't think full size ones could be uploaded (which is why I quoted the spore and asci measurements in the text), but maybe I over-reduced them. I will try again with mounting in water. I had not appreciated from FOTE that they needed to be live spores. Is the iodine reaction with K as well as iodine? (I have had trouble with lichen identification where I using K as well as I when it was supposed to just be I, so I'm not too sure about how this one should be done. Many thanks again.
Hans-Otto Baral,
25-09-2023 11:54
Re : Calycina claroflava?
In lichens as in non-lichens you may always use Lugol without KOH. If Lugol (IKI) is negative you can be sure that K+IKI is also negative.
Ascofrance reduces the images automatically when they are too large.




