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01-06-2025 09:37

Charles Aron Charles Aron

Hi All, I found this Octospora growing with liver

05-07-2025 12:38

Åge Oterhals

I found this pyrenomycetous fungi in pine forest o

04-07-2025 20:12

Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A fungus growing on the surface of a trunk o

20-06-2025 08:33

Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.Small, blackish, mucronated surface grains s

28-06-2025 16:00

Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A tiny fungus shaped like globose black grai

04-07-2025 12:43

Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

me mandan el material seco de Galicia (España) 

03-07-2025 18:40

Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

me mandas el material seco de Galicia (España) re

03-07-2025 20:08

Francois Guay Francois Guay

I found this interesting yellowish asco growing on

01-07-2025 23:37

Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A Pleosporal symbiotic organism located and

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Yanick BOULANGER

BonjourRécolté sur une brindille au fond d'un fo

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Pale 4-spored pyrenomycete
Eduard Osieck, 16-07-2015 22:36
On a dead Arctium (= herbaceous) stem pale round ascomata with 4-spored asci with a long stipe. Spores are one-celled, rather small (7-9 x 5-7 um), brown with a germ pore at each end. Ascomata become dark when spores become ripe. Ascoma wall presumably a textura epidermoidea.

I have no idea what it is. It does not concern 4-spored genera like Boothiella (spore length > 10 um) and Arxiomyces (ascomata dark and beaked).


Does anybody has a suggestion what this could be?


Thanks in advance, Eduard

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Eduard Osieck, 14-09-2015 22:55
Re : Pale 4-spored pyrenomycete
Further study has revealed that the collection best matches the characteristics of the genus Pseudallescheria (see Guarro 2012, Soil Ascomycetes): cleistothecium, textura epidermoidea, brown one-celled spores with a germ pore at each end. However, this genus is only known with 8-spored asci. The main question is what is the taxonomic significance of the spore number/ ascus? Does it depend on environmental conditions? 
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Eduard Osieck, 27-12-2021 12:10
Re : Pale 4-spored pyrenomycete
Finally this fungus has got a scientific name thanks to two German collections and the Westerdijk Institute (former CBS): Paramicrothecium sambuci.


(sheet 1329, pages 262-263).