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What on Alnus catkins?
    
                    Marja  Pennanen,
                04-09-2009 22:52
    
    Spores 9-2 x 2-3 and asci 60-75x8-9 micrometers.
Paraphyses 3-4 micrometers wide, bend and a little swollen on the top.
                                    Hans-Otto Baral,
                                04-09-2009 23:39            
            
                Re:What on Alnus catkins?
                Hi Marja
The micros (do you mean 9-12 for the spores?) might tell for Calycellina alniella, but the apothecia are a bit small. Did you look for the asci, are they constantly 8-spored? There exists a 4-spored species on Alnus catkins.
Any contents in the living paraphyses? Spore contents?
Zotto
                
                
                
                
                
                            The micros (do you mean 9-12 for the spores?) might tell for Calycellina alniella, but the apothecia are a bit small. Did you look for the asci, are they constantly 8-spored? There exists a 4-spored species on Alnus catkins.
Any contents in the living paraphyses? Spore contents?
Zotto
                                    Marja  Pennanen,
                                05-09-2009 10:40            
            Re:What on Alnus catkins?
                Greetings Zotto,
the asci are 8-spored, spores about 9-12x2-3 micrometers when fresh.
With my simple microscope I can't see more.
The fruitbody measurements are not very accurate, they are done with a ruler...
Marja from ascomycetes wonderland ;)
                
                
                
                
                
                            the asci are 8-spored, spores about 9-12x2-3 micrometers when fresh.
With my simple microscope I can't see more.
The fruitbody measurements are not very accurate, they are done with a ruler...
Marja from ascomycetes wonderland ;)
                                    Hans-Otto Baral,
                                05-09-2009 12:58            
            
                Re:What on Alnus catkins?
                I usually also measure with a ruler, but not rarely I measure the apos on the photos because I mostly use a fix zoom.
So with 8-spored asci I would consider Calycellina alniella as probable, although the apothecia look not very typical. Without detailed microscopic images we cannto say more, sorry.
Zotto
                
                
                
                
                
                            So with 8-spored asci I would consider Calycellina alniella as probable, although the apothecia look not very typical. Without detailed microscopic images we cannto say more, sorry.
Zotto
                                    Stip Helleman,
                                05-09-2009 20:10            
            
                Re:What on Alnus catkins?
                Hi Marja,
Macroscopically it looks to me also not as Caycellina, i think about Allophylaria, there is a still undescribed species on Alnus catcins. Is the excipulum very gelatinised? (If you make a squash mount all the inner tissue is pushed out and the excipulum is persistent, see image)
Stip
                
                                    
                    
                
                
                
                
                            Macroscopically it looks to me also not as Caycellina, i think about Allophylaria, there is a still undescribed species on Alnus catcins. Is the excipulum very gelatinised? (If you make a squash mount all the inner tissue is pushed out and the excipulum is persistent, see image)
Stip
                
