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fungus on rabbit dung
Sven Heinz, 11-08-2018 19:10
Sven Heinz
Hello together,

does anyone have any idea what this is about. The fungus grows superficially on rabbit dung.

Spores: 14 - 15 x 4 - 5 µ striped.

Greetings Sven
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David Malloch, 15-08-2018 15:30
David Malloch
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
Hello Sven..
This looks like a species of Myrothecium, possibly M. cinctum.
David

Michel Delpont, 15-08-2018 18:19
Michel Delpont
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
Hello David!

I did not know that the genus Myrothecium could also come on excrement; do you know if some species are more related than others to this substrate! Would you have a paper on this and a key?


Michel.

David Malloch, 15-08-2018 19:10
David Malloch
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
Hi Michel..
This is just a guess.  It's difficult to tell from the photograph, but it appears that the fungus was growing on a leaf attached to the dung.  That would be consistent with the usual habitat of Myrothecium species, which is soil and plant drbris.  The elongated and striate conidia are similar to those photographed by Matsushima (Fungi of the Soloman Islands) and described as M. longistriatosporum Mats. Domsch and Gams later considered Matsushima's species to be synonymous with M. cinctum.

I don't know of any specific records of a species of Myrothecium on dung, but cellulolytic and litter-decomposing species sometimes appear on that substrate even though they are not primarily coprophilous.

Tulloch's monograph of Myrothecium in Mycol. Pap. CMI. 130: 1-42 might have some records on dung, but I don't have access to that paper and, as far as I can tell, it is not available online. 

Kind regards,
David

Michel Delpont, 15-08-2018 20:46
Michel Delpont
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
OK! Thank you David for all your clarifications very informative!

Best regards.

Michel.


Sven Heinz, 15-08-2018 21:19
Sven Heinz
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
Hello together,

thank you for the interesting contributions! Maybe someone still has literature about this fungus?

Greetings Sven
Chris Yeates, 20-08-2018 02:53
Chris Yeates
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
Here is Tulloch's paper

No mention of dung as far as I can see, but as David suggests M. cinctum, as a cellulose degrader, appears to have a very wide geographical and substrate range.

I hope this paper might be of interest in any case . . . .

amitiés

Chris
David Malloch, 20-08-2018 03:12
David Malloch
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
Thanks Chris.  Even though there are no specific records on dung, M. cinctum still looks close. Sven's collection is not really synnematous, but it does have a short stipe.
David
Michel Delpont, 20-08-2018 11:43
Michel Delpont
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
Thank you Chris, it helps to approach new kind uncommon!
Amitiés.
Michel.
Angel Pintos, 21-08-2018 18:53
Angel Pintos
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
current name:

Striaticonidium cinctum (Corda) L. Lombard & Crous, in Lombard, Houbraken, Decock, Samson, Meijer, Réblová, Groenewald & Crous, Persoonia 36: 229 (2016)

regards
Angel
Chris Yeates, 21-08-2018 20:34
Chris Yeates
Re : fungus on rabbit dung
See http://repository.naturalis.nl/document/636331 where the paper Angel mentions can be downloaded.

Chris