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21-01-2026 19:55

Bohan Jia

Hi,  Could this be Nemania aureolutea? Or did I

21-01-2026 16:32

Gernot Friebes

Hi,I need your help with some black dots on a lich

21-01-2026 16:48

Gernot Friebes

Hi,after my last unknown hyphomycete on this subst

20-01-2026 17:49

Hardware Tony Hardware Tony

I offer this collection as a possibility only as e

15-01-2026 15:55

Lothar Krieglsteiner Lothar Krieglsteiner

this one is especially interesting for me because

03-01-2026 15:36

éric ROMERO éric ROMERO

Bonjour, Pouvez-vous me dire quel est le nom à p

19-01-2026 12:01

Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

Me mandan el material seco de Galicia (España) 

17-01-2026 19:35

Arnold Büschlen

Hallo, ich suche zu Cosmospora aurantiicola Lite

16-01-2026 00:45

Ethan Crenson

Hi all, On decorticated hardwood from a New York

18-01-2026 12:24

Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.An anamorph located on the surface of a thin

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Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)
Stephen Martin Mifsud, 19-11-2024 20:00
Stephen Martin MifsudI have found this intriguing fungus which looked like a slime mold (fruiting bodies 1-2mm) but they consist of an ascomycete with a head of tightly packed penicillium-like branched conidiophores forming copious conidiospores that remain glued forming a pink layer over the conidiophores. These are not disturbed by wind but easily break free with water (like they repel each other). The stipe is charcoal black and the upper 3/4 is like covered with lime (or pruinosity). Fruiting body tough, rubbery, stipe hard.

The spores are aseptate, narrowly elliptic/subcylindrical with obtuse ends and two oil bodies at each end. They do not stain in Congo red, and moderatly or faintly so in cotton blue, a bit better in Methylene blue. No colour change with KOH. There is also some kind of mass that stains fuchsia in congo red. Not sure if an artefact, but cant be an artefact in all of them.


Spores


(4.8) 5.4 - 6.4 (7) × (2.6) 2.7 - 3.2 (3.4) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.8 - 2.3 (2.7) ; N = 37
V = (21) 22 - 31 (39) µm3
Me = 5.9 × 2.9 µm ; Qe = 2 ; Ve = 26 µm3


No asci  or ascospores present so this is some Anamorph. 

It was growing through cracks of thin bark of branches of Ailanthus altissimus (Tree of heaven) in a burnt area. The substrate looks black but the bark is not burnt. 

Your help is appreciated!

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Ethan Crenson, 19-11-2024 20:13
Re : Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)
It reminds me of Stilbocrea gracilipes.
Stephen Martin Mifsud, 19-11-2024 20:20
Stephen Martin Mifsud
Re : Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)
Ethan !!! you are a genius :-)  Very hot or probably bingo!!!  I chek the details of this species, but gross morphology is very close 

https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/384449-Stilbocrea-gracilipes/browse_photos
Stephen Martin Mifsud, 19-11-2024 20:36
Stephen Martin Mifsud
Re : Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)