05-07-2025 12:38
Åge OterhalsI found this pyrenomycetous fungi in pine forest o
04-07-2025 20:12
Josep Torres
Hello.A fungus growing on the surface of a trunk o
20-06-2025 08:33
Josep Torres
Hello.Small, blackish, mucronated surface grains s
28-06-2025 16:00
Josep Torres
Hello.A tiny fungus shaped like globose black grai
04-07-2025 12:43
Castillo Joseba
me mandan el material seco de Galicia (España)
03-07-2025 18:40
Castillo Joseba
me mandas el material seco de Galicia (España) re
03-07-2025 20:08
Francois Guay
I found this interesting yellowish asco growing on
01-07-2025 23:37
Josep Torres
Hello.A Pleosporal symbiotic organism located and
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