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31-03-2026 21:18

Miguel Ãngel Ribes Miguel Ángel Ribes

Good evening. oes anyone have the original descrip

31-03-2026 20:57

Stefan Blaser

Hello everybody, I hope somebody can help me with

26-03-2026 15:31

Ãke Widgren Åke Widgren

Hello,I found this one in October last year, on r

31-03-2026 16:20

Mlcoch Patrik Mlcoch Patrik

Hello, Please about help with determination. On

31-03-2026 08:19

Bernard CLESSE Bernard CLESSE

Bonjour à toutes et tous,Pourriez-vous m'aider à

30-03-2026 12:18

Sylvie Le Goff

BonjourRécolté sur la base de Pteridium aquilinu

30-03-2026 12:03

William Slosse William Slosse

Hello all,On 27/03/26, in Kraaiveld in Wingene (Be

25-03-2026 10:35

Hulda Caroline Holte

Hello,I collected this species growing on a dead b

28-03-2026 17:41

Louis DENY

Bonjour forum,Mollisia trouvée sur tige de Molini

30-03-2026 09:53

Yanick BOULANGER

BonjourVoici des petites fructifications poilues s

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A non-lichenised fungus?
Jennifer Fiorentino, 28-07-2021 15:26
Would be very happy to receive your opinion on this. I examined the fruiting bodies of this fungus thinking it was a lichen as there seems to be a greyish white thallus present. It was growing on the bark of an old, coastal carob tree in the Mediterranean. The black fruiting bodies were between 0.1 - 0.3mm diameter. A TS revealed a hymenium of about 110um height and a dark hypothecium. The 3- septate spores were dark reddish-brown, 23-32 x 9 -16um. Too long and wide to fit any Diplotomma/Buellia Mediterranean lichen species I know of. Would this be a non-lichenised fungus? Many thanks in advance.
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Hermann Voglmayr, 30-07-2021 11:23
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Re : A non-lichenised fungus?
Dear Jennifer,
compare with Stigmatodiscus - see the following freely available publications:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-016-0356-y
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-018-1435-0
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5788271/

I do not see any gel sheath surrounding the ascospores in your pics which are diagnostic for Stigmatodiscus - but this may be due to the fact that the ascospores illustrated are very old and dead, and probably also due to the slide preparation/mounting medium.

Concerning spore measurements and shape, this could be Stigmatodiscus oculatus, but one would need more clear pics of the ascomata, a thinner section of the ascomata and more detailed pictures of living ascospores to evaluate the gel sheath and septation.

Best,
Hermann

Jennifer Fiorentino, 05-12-2021 16:02
Re : A non-lichenised fungus?
A belated thanks for your comment. Will check my specimen in line with your suggestion. So sorry to have missed it way back in July. My apologies.