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Pourriez-vous m'aider à identifier cette héloti
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Bonjour,Voici une récolte faite il y a quelques j
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Lothar Krieglsteiner
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Little pinkish asco
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová),
11-05-2016 20:37
Hi,this very little ascomycete grew on soil in a margin of a way, among protonemata, on sandstone background, Czechia.
Apothecia about 0.2 mm broad, sessile, pinkish, rounded, without hairs, convex.
Asci cylindric-clavate, non-amyloid, with 8 biseriately arranged spores in the upper part.
Spores 11-12.5 x 5.5-6 micrometers (unfortunately the collection contains mostly young apothecia, so I couldn´t observe many mature spores), smooth, hyaline, filled with many little droplets. In young spores (inside asci) there is a well visible a septum (or rarely two).
Paraphyses 1-1.5 micrometers wide, bent or curved, septate, hyaline.
Excipulum with subglobose to subangular cells, 7-13.5 micrometers broad.
It resembles me the genus Mniaecia.
Zuzana
François Valade,
11-05-2016 21:03
Re : Little pinkish asco
Hello
It reminds me Discinella lividopurpurea. Let's wait for Zotto's point of view.
François
It reminds me Discinella lividopurpurea. Let's wait for Zotto's point of view.
François
Hans-Otto Baral,
11-05-2016 21:36
Re : Little pinkish asco
I imagine that this might be a Mniaecia! Incredible, but it looks a bit so. Discinella limosella/lividopurpurea has more elongate spores with a rather low lipid content, amyloid asci, and straight paraphyses with VBs. The septate spores are surely overmature (such are not rarely found inside dead asci!), the mature guttulate spores seem to be aseptate. Do you have a photo of the ascus apex in dead state? Is it thick-walled?
Such strange collections would benefit from a DNA analysis.
Such strange collections would benefit from a DNA analysis.
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová),
11-05-2016 22:27
Re : Little pinkish asco
Thank you, Francois and Zotto.
I made photos of asci in cotton blue and KOH, but they are of a very poor quality.
I will let them grow few more days in a fridge and then sample few apothecia for sequencing (although I don´t know whether it will be succesful in such little fungi).
I made photos of asci in cotton blue and KOH, but they are of a very poor quality.
I will let them grow few more days in a fridge and then sample few apothecia for sequencing (although I don´t know whether it will be succesful in such little fungi).
Hans-Otto Baral,
11-05-2016 22:32
Re : Little pinkish asco
in opened asci the thickening is not so good to see, but anyhow I see there is one.
Gernot Friebes,
08-05-2026 13:38
Re : Little pinkish asco
Hi,
is there any news on this fungus? My colleague Martina Pöltl found likely the same species:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/358881571
I attach a few more microphotos here. Ascospores measure approx. 10.7-11.8 x 4.4-6.1 µm.
Macroscopically, it is quite similar to Octospora lilacina.
Best wishes,
Gernot
is there any news on this fungus? My colleague Martina Pöltl found likely the same species:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/358881571
I attach a few more microphotos here. Ascospores measure approx. 10.7-11.8 x 4.4-6.1 µm.
Macroscopically, it is quite similar to Octospora lilacina.
Best wishes,
Gernot
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová),
08-05-2026 21:59
Re : Little pinkish asco
Dear Gernot,
thanks for sharing.
Yes, the fungus is somewhat similar to O. lilacina - and my collection also grew in the same habitat where I meet O. lilacina.
Unfortunately, sequencing wasn´t successful. I haven´t recollected the species (I moved from Bohemia to Moravia and have very limited oportunities to visit the Bohemian locality).
Best regards, Zuzana
thanks for sharing.
Yes, the fungus is somewhat similar to O. lilacina - and my collection also grew in the same habitat where I meet O. lilacina.
Unfortunately, sequencing wasn´t successful. I haven´t recollected the species (I moved from Bohemia to Moravia and have very limited oportunities to visit the Bohemian locality).
Best regards, Zuzana
Zdenek Palice,
09-05-2026 15:46
Re : Little pinkish asco
Hallo Zuzana
I think I have been meeting this fungus from time to time on wet sandy soil
it would be fine to check whether - by chance - the name Gloeopeziza zukalii Rehm could refer to this fungus or not
the type was collected by the lichenologist Arnold and Rehm interpreted it as a fungus growing on algae
the description is available here: https://ia600402.us.archive.org/15/items/mobot31753002347554/mobot31753002347554.pdf
apothecia of your material would be on the lower limit of the reported apos-size
the type material should be housed in Munich (M)
Zdenek