20-12-2025 15:47
Mirek GrycHi.These grew on pine wood that was heavily covere
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Pol DebaenstThe identification took me to Byssonectria deformi
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Danny Newman
indet. Rutstroemiaceae sp. on unk. fallen leavesMc
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Patrice TANCHAUDBonjour, récolte réalisée en milieu dunaire, a
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Bruno Coué
Bonjour,je serais heureux d'avoir votre avis sur c
18-12-2025 18:07
Margot en Geert VullingsThese plumes were found on rotten wood.They strong
17-12-2025 18:35
Michel Hairaud
Bonjour à tous/Hi to everyone I am passing along
15-12-2025 15:48
Danny Newman
Melanospora cf. lagenaria on old, rotting, fallen

Dear collegues,
I collected a small Scutellinia in a muddy track, together with Coprinopsis narcoticus.
It has round spores with spines and short hairs, but I don't succeed to determine it with SCHUMACHER key.
Spores: round to roundish, 17,5-20 µm in diam., but some are not perfect globose e.g. 18 x 17 µm and 19 x 18 µm.
Spines are sharp, 2-2,5 µm high, very few may be up to 3 µm high
Hairs are remarkably few when seen through the dissecting micorscope, short, 200-350 (500) µm, base not furcate or rarely bifurcate. Only few septae, which are wuite thin.
It seems not to be Scutellinia legaliae due to the lower spines and bigger spores and also the haits don't fit good.
Any ideas?
thank you and best regards,
Andreas
Hello Nicolas,
o.k., then S. legaliae.
thank you and best regards,
Andreas
Oui, je pense aussi qu'il s'agite de S. legaliae. Je pense aussi que la forme ronde des ascospores peut varier et qu'il est possible d'en trouver de celles imparfaitement rondes, comme par exemple chez Ramsbottomia crec'hqueraultii !
Cordialement
René
Cher René,
merci beaucoup aussi à toi pour ta reponse!
amicalement,
Andreas
Cordialement
René
Effectivement, chez S. legaliae, il est même rare que les spores soient sphériques, on est toujours sur un Q moyen de 1.1.
Beñat





