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22-04-2026 01:06

Richard VALERI Richard VALERI

Bonjour à tous.Je vous présente cette Nectria s.

21-04-2026 22:14

Margot en Geert Vullings

This cup fungus was found on April 10, 2026, on lo

21-04-2026 21:00

Sylvie Le Goff

Bonjour à tousJe sollicite votre aide pour cet as

21-04-2026 13:36

Gernot Friebes

Hi,I am out of ideas for this one. I collected Sal

21-04-2026 13:19

Gernot Friebes

Hi,this Lophodermium on Typha has ascospores measu

21-04-2026 13:05

Gernot Friebes

Hi,this hyphomycete feels familiar but I was not a

20-04-2026 22:00

Malcolm  Greaves Malcolm Greaves

These pale yellow, hairy ascos were growing on cul

19-04-2026 21:23

Steve Clements

Bonjour, I found this anamorphic fungus on old pl

19-04-2026 20:46

Steve Clements

1 mm diameter approx spherical conidiophores on pl

12-04-2026 17:56

Hardware Tony Hardware Tony

Found on dead stems in February earlier this year

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Bright orange stalked asco
Carl Farmer, 28-10-2025 15:37
I'd be grateful for any suggestions for this striking orange-red asco found on a recumbent oak trunk in Cowal, Scotland. I've not been able to find a match in any books or online. UK Fungi forum members are stumped by it and suggested I post it here.

I'm not very good at microscopy but the largest spores in a squash were about 5.3-6.7 x 2.2-2.6 mu, elliptical, hyaline, 8 per ascus. Paraphyses hyaline and of even width.

With many thanks for any help,
Carl
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Thomas Læssøe, 28-10-2025 16:17
Re : Bright orange stalked asco
Guepiniopsis has basidia
Lothar Krieglsteiner, 28-10-2025 17:52
Lothar Krieglsteiner
Re : Bright orange stalked asco
but on picture 5 (micro-foto 2) I see asci.
Michel Hairaud, 28-10-2025 18:57
Michel Hairaud
Re : Bright orange stalked asco
Hi Carl, 
Thank you for this first post of yours on the Ascofrance forum. Feel welcome here. 

Indeed an interesting species ! With apparently an Hymenoscyphus habit. 

Some more information would help for a placement in a supraspecies entity, also micro pictures with a x100 magnification. 
Can you picture the medulla and ectal cells ? Can you also test a iodine reaction on Ascus apex 

Amitiés
Michel



Carl Farmer, 03-11-2025 18:57
Re : Bright orange stalked asco
Ben Mitchell, who was present when the fungus was found and who lives nearby, has been back to get another sample and taken some better microscope photos than I could, including one showing the ascus tip in Lugol's iodine. This has certainly made it darker but without much of a blue tinge. It has made the spores blue though.

The photos would have to be compressed in size and quality to meet the forum rules, so I've put them online at http://www.abrec.org.uk/OrangeAsco/orange-asco.htmjavascript:mctmp(0); to give best visibity of detail. Hope this is allowed.

Neither Ben nor I nor anyone else I know is very experienced in fungal microscopy!