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This tiny, rather "rough" erumpent asco was found

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30-06-2025 14:45

This is a quite common species on Nothofagus wood

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29-06-2025 18:11
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Question about discomycete sample processing
Juuso Äikäs,
14-01-2024 19:31
I would be interested to know how sizable discomycetes such as Peziza s.l., Sarcoscypha etc. are processed in herbariums.
Gilled fungi for example are at least here generally pressed into a flat form in order to make the sample take less space and become less prone to turning into mushroom dust.
Do medium to large discos generally receive this treatment as well, or are they just simply dried and kept as is?
Andrew N. Miller,
14-01-2024 19:49

Re : Question about discomycete sample processing
They are dried and kept as is in an acid-free paper packet or a small archival box. We do not slice anything, but we do press plants flat.
Andy
Andy
Viktorie Halasu,
14-01-2024 23:06

Re : Question about discomycete sample processing
I revised specimens in a herbarium where specimens are kept in a "swedish" system (paper envelope inside a flat box of 2 or 3 normalised sizes) and one of the previous curators used to press fungi flat. While Otidea specimens were easily doable even in this state (many 19th century specimens also look like that), I was told that the less fleshy gilled fungi such as small Mycena, Entoloma etc. lost their value by this treatment. In some cases it became impossible to revise them. The gills merged into one indistinguishable mass and it was impossible to make a section from gills. (If I remember correctly, he first made an exsiccate and then put it again into humid air and gradually flattened it before drying it again.) But really large fungi like Sarcosphaera, Morchella (or Boletus) are often cut into several thick pieces in other herbaria here, not only to spare place, but to make sure they dry up fast and thouroughly. Personally, I think anything larger than 1 cm will break into pieces anyway within 50-100 yrs, if they're only in envelopes, packed in small bales.
Juuso Äikäs,
16-01-2024 12:07
Re : Question about discomycete sample processing
Thanks for the answers. So apparently there's some variety with the processing methods. With the gills of small fungi merging into one, probably there has been an excessive amount of weight used during the pressing.