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15-08-2025 12:47

Philippe PELLICIER

Bonjour, j'ai récolté cette Scutellinia au Col d

15-08-2025 21:50

Bernard CLESSE Bernard CLESSE

Bonsoir à toutes et tous,Pourriez-vous m'aider à

13-08-2025 12:17

Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

De ayer en la misma muestra que el Ascobulus anter

13-08-2025 22:41

Francois Guay Francois Guay

I found this species on decaying wood in Québec,

14-08-2025 17:32

Nicolas VAN VOOREN Nicolas VAN VOOREN

Hello.In the course of forthcoming paper about Geo

15-08-2025 07:20

Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová) Zuzana Sochorová (Egertová)

Hello, a few days ago I have collected this Tarzet

12-08-2025 21:01

Peter Welt Peter Welt

What could this be? Fromm Torsten Richter Any ide

13-08-2025 12:01

Castillo Joseba Castillo Joseba

De ayer en KK de vacunoAscas con 20 o mas esporasa

12-08-2025 19:44

Enrique Rubio Enrique Rubio

Could someone send me a pdf copy of this article?S

11-08-2025 20:31

Jorge Hernanz

Nous avons trouvé cette espèce dans des habitats

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Mould which easily break when mounted in water or Stains
Stephen Martin, 02-12-2017 08:36
Stephen MartinHi, I got this mould as a contaminant while studying another microfungus inoculated from a decaying log. On various media (PDA, SDA, Czapek) it forms an olive green growth  (3cm / 14C / 7 days) with a yellowish tinge. First indication is that of a Penicillium sp. but under the microscope I could not make heads and tails. The prime character I can describe is that the phialides and hypha of the conidiogenesis apparatus breaksing up into  constituent pieces giving this polymorphic observation of spores, hyphae and septate(?) phialides of various shapes and sizes. These septate hyphae have tiny projections indicating that they used to bear spores and hence part of the fruiting organ.

Rarely I see spores in short chains but often they are very hygrophobic and entrapped in tiny bubbles hindering the view of the conidiaphore+apparatus. Is there a specific mould with this character - breaking out easily? I strongly doubt it is a  Penicillium as I managed to see a fruiting part with budding spore.
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Angel Pintos, 02-12-2017 09:32
Angel Pintos
Re : Mould which easily break when mounted in water or Stains
Looks like Cladosporium sp.

regards

Angel
Joey JTan, 02-12-2017 17:03
Re : Mould which easily break when mounted in water or Stains
Yes this is a Cladosporium sp. The conidial chains easily fragment and can be seen best by making a tape mount. Gently press a small piece of transparent tape against the colony and mount it in water (place it on a drop of water, don't just stick it to the slide itself). You should see the chains still connected. The larger, 2-celled, shield-like ramoconidia are indicative of Cladosporium and give rise to branching conidia chains.
Stephen Martin, 07-12-2017 23:29
Stephen Martin
Re : Mould which easily break when mounted in water or Stains
Hi thank you for your replies. It took time to come back but I did not forget you. The tape method did a lovely job. I cut a small squarish piece of tape using tweezers and clean scissors, laid the sticky surface on the outer part of the colony, gave a very gentle press (like a touch rather than a press), placed the sticky surface of a drop of water on a mounting slide and mounted under a microscope. It was interesting to observe that this species had clamp junctions. 

Now, I could see the conidiogenesis structure very well and I drew a quick illustration :-) 

I don't think I dare to follow the Cladosporium key of a meticulous monograph to reach species level!
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