Great Stip!!

I also believe the spores are partly septate, inside the living ascus, the arrangement of the drops  and a very slight constriction tell for this. If you had applied Melzers to this ascus it wuld have become very obvious.

Michel, do you also have a photo of the paraphyses unstained? There are VBs which are unknown, for instance, in Unguiculariopsis.

Graddon did not believe that the Chalara belongs to the fungus. Now why has cladii priority over scintillans? cladii was described in 1975, but scintillans in 1974. With the new rules, however, the anamorph epitheton cladii MB Ellis 1961 will be the oldest, though it cannot be combined in Phaeoscypha!


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