28-06-2025 16:00
Josep Torres
Hello.A tiny fungus shaped like globose black grai
27-06-2025 14:09
Åge OterhalsI found this pyrenomycetous fungi in mountain area
11-06-2025 16:26
Jason Karakehian
Hi everyone, I am looking for the following protol
23-06-2025 13:25
Enrique Rubio
I would like to hear your opinion on this Scutelli
25-06-2025 16:56
Philippe PELLICIERBonjour, pensez-vous que S. ceijpii soit le nom co
25-06-2025 16:25
Thomas FlammerMy first impression was sth like Rutstromeia, but
24-06-2025 22:29
Danny Newman
Hello AscoFrance, I have recently photographed, c
24-06-2025 14:00
Warre Van CaenegemI'm currently in Croatia doing fieldwork that is n
Last year the fungus presented in 2010:http://www.ascofrance.fr/forum?id=11408
was found again, now in Montenegro on Pinus heldreichii in a subalpine forest by Branislav Peric, with slightly larger spores but otherwise the same. We have now finished an article on it and still could not find anything that fits. Some similarities exist to Odontotrema, but that genus has an amyloid hymenium and lacks a spore sheath. I also see similarities to Exarmidium, but again no spore sheath is known there and the minute apothecia tend to perithecioid and always grow on naked wood, not erumpent from bark.
A sequence from apothecia (ITS, LSU) did not clarify the position of this species, though the closest match was members of Lecanoromycetes (Umbilicaria, Porpidia, Xylographa). For sure, our fungus is not lichenised, but such interrelationships occur perhaps not too rarely.
Zotto