14-04-2026 05:32
Ethan CrensonHi all, A few weeks back a friend pointed out som
12-04-2026 17:56
Hardware Tony
Found on dead stems in February earlier this year
12-04-2026 15:52
Gernot FriebesHi,I'm looking for help with this anamorph collect
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William Slosse
In a dune grassland in Oostduinkerke (Belgium), on
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Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová)
Please, could anyone send me this paper?Moyne G.,
11-04-2026 13:34
Artem PtukhaHello, I am seeking assistance with the identific
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Michel Hairaud
Chers amis d'Ascofrance , voici une très bonne no
11-04-2026 10:10
Michel Hairaud
Dear Ascofrance members, here is some very good ne
10-04-2026 23:22
Gernot FriebesHi,ascospores are 1- to 3-septate, approximately
I'd like to know your opinion about this 'ceratostomelloid' fungus growing on rotten wood of Fagus sylvatica. The beaked, scattered, glabrous, inmersed perithecia are up to 1 mm high with only the long necks erumpent across the surface.
The asci are cylindrical, shortly stipitate, 63-85 x 6-7 microns, with an conspicuous apical apparatus IKI negative and 8 ascospores obliquely uniseriate. Paraphyses septate tapering at the end. Ascospores 8.5-11.5 x 4.3-4.9; Q = 1.96-2.58, allways 2-guttulate, smooth, maybe porate (?).
I think this fungus agrees better with Xylomelasma than Ceratostomella. What do you think?
Thanks again
Xylomelasma sordida seems to be a good match. Did you observe the peculiar ascogenous cells at the base of the asci, as described by Réblova? You have to make a very thin slide to see them, hard job!
Saludos,
Jacques





