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01-06-2025 09:37

Octospora
Charles Aron Charles Aron

Hi All, I found this Octospora growing with liver

06-07-2025 19:36

Auda con esta
Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

me mandan el material de Galicia (España) recolec

05-07-2025 12:38

Pyrenomycetous fungi on dead Juniperus twig
Åge Oterhals

I found this pyrenomycetous fungi in pine forest o

04-07-2025 20:12

Black thready anamorph
Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A fungus growing on the surface of a trunk o

20-06-2025 08:33

Ascomycete on a herbaceous stem.
Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.Small, blackish, mucronated surface grains s

28-06-2025 16:00

Salvia leaf parasite
Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A tiny fungus shaped like globose black grai

04-07-2025 12:43

En tallo de herbaceas 1102
Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

me mandan el material seco de Galicia (España) 

03-07-2025 18:40

Melampsora ??? en Salix
Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

me mandas el material seco de Galicia (España) re

03-07-2025 20:08

Yellowish asco on submerged Larix needles
Francois Guay Francois Guay

I found this interesting yellowish asco growing on

01-07-2025 23:37

Help with a Pleosporal.
Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A Pleosporal symbiotic organism located and

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Calycina claroflava?
Di Napier, 25-09-2023 11:04
Found on a rotting log in Warwickshire, UK.  I think these might well be Calycina claroflava: the septate spores are the right size c 7.5-9 x c 2-2.5um, and they are septate in the asci, so it isn't Calycina citrina.  However, the ascus length is quite a bit shorter (70-80 um) for the figure quoted for Calycina claroflava in Fungi of Temperate Europe (120-140).  The asci are perhaps slightly I+ or maybe I-.  I don't have any other literature with ascus size for this species. This is the second time I have collected a sample locally with the same spore and ascus features, so it would be good to have a name for recording. Thank you
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Hans-Otto Baral, 25-09-2023 11:15
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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
Hans-Otto Baral
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.

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