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05-11-2025 11:33

Cladosporium ?
Pierre Repellin

Bonjpur,J'ai trouvé, sur une hampe florale d'Alli

04-11-2025 09:07

Hymenoscyphus on blueberry.
Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.A suspected Hymenoscyphus sprouting on a thi

04-11-2025 12:43

Protounguicularia transiens?
Edvin Johannesen Edvin Johannesen

Hi! One more found on old Populus tremula log in O

04-11-2025 14:53

Ophiobolus?
Josep Torres Josep Torres

Hello.Very small, globose, mucronate perithecia, b

03-11-2025 21:34

Tatraea sp. ? on Populus tremula
Edvin Johannesen Edvin Johannesen

These tiny (0.4-0.5 mm diam.), whitish, short-stip

03-11-2025 19:41

Ascomycetes
David Chapados David Chapados

Hi,Does anyone knows which genus could this be? G

28-10-2025 15:37

Bright orange stalked asco
Carl Farmer

I'd be grateful for any suggestions for this strik

03-11-2025 16:30

Hymenoscyphus phiala
Hans-Otto Baral Hans-Otto Baral

Hello I want to ask you if you have found this ye

01-11-2025 09:14

Telogalla olivieri
Francis Maggi

Bonjour,Trouvé sur Xanthoria parietina à Valdebl

28-10-2025 19:33

Rutstroemia firma
Nicolas Suberbielle Nicolas Suberbielle

Bonjour à tous,Je voudrais votre avis sur cette r

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Calycina claroflava?
Di Napier, 25-09-2023 11:04
Found on a rotting log in Warwickshire, UK.  I think these might well be Calycina claroflava: the septate spores are the right size c 7.5-9 x c 2-2.5um, and they are septate in the asci, so it isn't Calycina citrina.  However, the ascus length is quite a bit shorter (70-80 um) for the figure quoted for Calycina claroflava in Fungi of Temperate Europe (120-140).  The asci are perhaps slightly I+ or maybe I-.  I don't have any other literature with ascus size for this species. This is the second time I have collected a sample locally with the same spore and ascus features, so it would be good to have a name for recording. Thank you
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Hans-Otto Baral, 25-09-2023 11:15
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Re : Calycina claroflava?
The uploaded images are much too small to see or read something. Since you mounted in lethal media you cannot be sure with spore septation inside the asci, this needs to be checked in living asci. Negative IKI reaction and absence of croziers are essential, and living spores and their contents would be welcome.
Di Napier, 25-09-2023 11:40
Re : Calycina claroflava?
Thank you for the very helpful reply.  The photos were reduced as I didn't think full size ones could be uploaded (which is why I quoted the spore and asci measurements in the text), but maybe I over-reduced them.  I will try again with mounting in water.  I had not appreciated from FOTE that they needed to be live spores.  Is the iodine reaction with K as well as iodine? (I have had trouble with lichen identification where I using K as well as I when it was supposed to just be I, so I'm not too sure about how this one should be done.  Many thanks again.
Hans-Otto Baral, 25-09-2023 11:54
Hans-Otto Baral
Re : Calycina claroflava?
In lichens as in non-lichens you may always use Lugol without KOH. If Lugol (IKI) is negative you can be sure that K+IKI is also negative.

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