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Tricladium varicosporioides on indet. decorticate
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Ethan CrensonHello all, I am hoping someone will have some ins
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Danny Newman
cf. Bombardia on indet. decorticate woodAppalachia
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Atrocalyx sp. on indet. herbaceous stemAppalachian
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Hello.A very tiny pyrenomycete sprouting sparsely
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Danny Newman
Cyathicula coronata on Urtica dioicaCataloochee Di
The apothecia popped out of cracks in a the cone scales when the cone was wet but almost completely disappeared on drying.
Apothecia: elliptical in outline, gelatinous, immersed, bursting through split in surface when moist, retracting again as they dry out. Hymenium pale greyish with whitish pruina; margin darker, brownish grey.
Asci: up to 210µm, tip not bluing in iodine, with 8 ascospores in a fascicle, but not completely aligned.
Ascospores: long, cylindric, multi-septate so the numerous individual cells look more or less square. Brian Spooner reports that they disarticulate into part spores c.4µm long.
Paraphyses: thin-walled, cylindric, very narrow, dichotomously branched twice near base, strongly expanded at apex into one to several, septate, moniliform but rarely branched, agglutinated, clavate cells (4-6.5µm diam); agglutination very strongly blued in Melzer's Iodine.
Lophodermium conigenum and Naemacyclus fimbriatus: ascospores not divided enough, paraphyses wrong (as they are for Sticta spp. Also the paraphysis tips blue in iodine rather than the hymenium base)
Probably not a Stictis. Schizoxylon might be better.
Many thanks for any comments.
