11-05-2026 12:32
Bernard CLESSE
Pourriez-vous m'aider à identifier cette héloti
13-05-2026 15:26
François Freléchoux
Bonjour,Voici une récolte faite il y a quelques j
12-05-2026 15:41
Nicolas VAN VOOREN
Dear Ascolovers, especially interested in Pezizale
13-05-2026 12:05
Thierry Blondelle
Bonjour à tous,J'aimerais avoir confirmation de c
10-05-2026 23:17
Andreas Gminder
Hello,today we found in a moist steep decidous for
28-04-2026 20:07
Lothar Krieglsteiner
... on twig in the air at standing Ceratonia siliq
27-04-2026 20:52
Lothar Krieglsteiner
Found on hanging tiwg of Olea europaea in dried-ou
11-05-2026 20:22
Lothar Krieglsteiner
on attached twig of standing Ficus caricaquite uns
29-04-2026 10:44
Lothar Krieglsteiner
growing at moist, drying-out soil at the side of a
Hi to all:These resupinate stromata grow on wood of Fagus sylvatica. KOH 10% extractable pigments are orange red but peripherically purplish. Asci have an apical apparatus Mlz. negative but bluish in IKI.
Could be H. rubiginosum?
No smell I have noted, perithecia are 375-575 microns high and stromata are small (only 3-4 cm)
Enrique
I guess you studied it in detail because it seemed a bit strange to you. The results of your chromatography are indeed surprising.
I would be glad to see it and I will forward it to Marc to study its HPLC profile.
Thanks in advance,
Jacques
Best wishes
Enrique
I eventually received your specimen, thanks!
I wonder if two different Hypoxylons were not mixed up in your collection because I failed to see any purplish tinge around the orange pigments obtained on a paper with KOH, following your method.
Ascal rings also differ from what you observed in that they turn blue in Melzer and IKI as well.
I first though your fungus might be H. canariense, so far known only from Canary Islands where it is very common, in which I sometimes observed dubious reactions of ascal rings to iodine, but I do think the one you sent me is a depauperate form of H. rubiginosum.
Many undescribed species of Hypoxylon likely are still to be discovered, most of them resembling H. rubiginosum in gross morphology. Keep on screening them!
With best wishes,
Jacques
Enrique