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Edvin Johannesen,
28-09-2021 15:34

Sub-mm apothecia on Picea abies cone in tall-herb spruce forest in Northern Norway. Stalks stout and black. Hymenium greyish. Excipulum easy to cut, but appearing "blurry" in the microscope, consisting of pale brownish or hyaline, parallel hyphae, I think textura oblita or if not, then t. porrecta. Asci IKI+ (blue in Lugol), clavate, 55-75 x 5-6 micr., spores 8-10 x 3 micr, 1-septate, aguttulate. Paraphyses cylindrical, multiguttulate. No croziers seen. All images (except last one i Lugol) and measures are in water.
Suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová),
28-09-2021 15:38
Re : Black-stalked apothecia with grey hymenium on Picea abies cone
I think this is Antinoa strobilina.
Edvin Johannesen,
28-09-2021 15:49
Re : Black-stalked apothecia with grey hymenium on Picea abies cone
That seems like an excellent suggestion! I have looked at Zotto's images and it's a very good match, I think. Not previously reported from Norway and it appears in GBIF that this is a very rare species. Thanks a lot!









