17-09-2024 02:12
B Shelbourne• Macro and habitat seems like Hymenoscyphus s.l
06-09-2024 16:23
Andgelo MombertBonjour,J'ai trouvé cette semaine Caesiodiscus po
15-09-2024 12:51
B Shelbourne• Macro and habitat suggest Cyathicula.• Confi
08-10-2019 21:31
Jason KarakehianHi AscoFrance community, Does anyone have a PDF
08-09-2024 21:31
B Shelbourne• Stromatised substrate and macro like genus Rut
13-09-2024 07:19
Thierry BlondelleBonjourDans le genre Trichobolus, quelles sont les
04-09-2024 21:02
Stephen MifsudI have found an interesting Xylaria growing on fal
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.