06-03-2016 22:19
Bernard CLESSE
Voici un asco sur place à feu que je pense être
08-03-2016 16:37
Joop van der Lee
Found on horse dung.Ascomata: 573.4 um wide and 39
07-03-2016 19:01
Enrique Rubio
Hi to the Orbilia lovers This nice species was fo
07-03-2016 18:11
Alain GARDIENNET
Dear forum, I'm looking for pages about Myxophora
08-03-2016 12:09
Castillo Joseba
Posiblemente en madera de eucaliptoTengo muchas du
07-03-2016 11:31
Gernot FriebesHi,this species, which I assume is an Amphisphaeri
08-03-2016 10:53
Castillo Joseba
en una muestra de Phytolacca americana, en la que
07-03-2016 20:32
Garcia SusanaHi,I have found this pyrenomycete growing in needl
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
It was on wood without bark
Here is a photo of it with Lugols.
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