07-05-2024 00:04
Ethan CrensonA friend found these black gelatnous cups on a twi
06-05-2024 10:02
François BartholomeeusenGood morning,At the end of an excursion in De Zegg
05-05-2024 09:59
Gernot FriebesHello,I failed to identify this anamorph, which gr
19-04-2015 20:20
Enrique RubioHi again Could you help me with this paper? NANN
30-04-2024 16:22
François BartholomeeusenDear forum members,On April 25 2024, I found one f
03-05-2024 18:04
Riet van OostenHello, Found by Laurens van der Linde on Rubus fr
01-05-2024 23:22
Ethan CrensonHi all, Found late last week in a New York City p
Apothecia discoid, sessile, outer surface and edge with large stiff hairs, to 1,5 mm, white.
Excipulum from textura globosa-prismatica, cells at the base near globose, 45 x 30, becoming prismatic and smaller to the edge, 17 x 15, edge with the row of clavate cells, 23 x 5; inner layer from excipulum textura porrecta, well expressed at flanks of receptacle, hyphae laying parralel to hymenium surface, 4,5 mk broad; medullary excpl not distinguished (?); outer gelatinose tissue absent; hairs to 400 mk long, 13 mk wide at base, stright or slightly bent, with thick glassy walls (3,5 mk), segmented, narrowing to obtuse tip (5 mk); asci clavate, with stalk, obtuse at tip, clamped, 65,8 (53-72,5) x 8,3 (7,8-8,8), pore with amyloid reaction (KOH, MLZ); paraphyses cylindrical, branched, segmented, 1,3-2 mk broad; spores ellipsoid, with obtuse ends, some curved, with 2-3 large and some small guttules (rehydrated in KOH), 11 (10,5-11,5) x 3 (2,8-3,2).
Growing on dead sphagnum parts, sedge litter, and other miscellaneous litter in wet hollow in the bog.
Apical rings like Sclerotiniaceae, hairs like Torrendiella, but hyaline, habit like Pezoloma , spores & excipulum ???
This would be interesting to take a sequence!
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Wau!
never seen such a creature. Extremely nice and also extremely weird ....