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04-11-2024 17:32

Yves Antoinette

Bonjour, je pense qu'il peut s'agir de Trichoderma

19-11-2024 14:48

Watt John

Scoring the characters on Mal's Tombio key actuall

19-11-2024 15:51

Francois Guay Francois Guay

Hi everyone, I found this Antinoa-like species las

12-11-2024 16:43

Ethan Crenson

Hello all, This weekend a friend found these dark

19-11-2024 08:57

Lothar Krieglsteiner Lothar Krieglsteiner

.. on dead stems of indet.dicotyl, maybe Phytolacc

19-11-2024 20:00

Stephen Martin Stephen Martin

I have found this intriguing fungus which looked l

19-11-2024 14:08

Dragiša Savic

Hello everyone, some interesting anamorphs. The fi

19-11-2024 00:36

Pérez del Amo Carlos Manuel Pérez del Amo Carlos Manuel

Hace unos días encontramos numerosos ejemplares d

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Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)
Stephen Martin, 19-11-2024 20:00
Stephen MartinI have found this intriguing fungus which looked like a slime mold (fruiting bodies 1-2mm) but they consist of an ascomycete with a head of tightly packed penicillium-like branched conidiophores forming copious conidiospores that remain glued forming a pink layer over the conidiophores. These are not disturbed by wind but easily break free with water (like they repel each other). The stipe is charcoal black and the upper 3/4 is like covered with lime (or pruinosity). Fruiting body tough, rubbery, stipe hard.

The spores are aseptate, narrowly elliptic/subcylindrical with obtuse ends and two oil bodies at each end. They do not stain in Congo red, and moderatly or faintly so in cotton blue, a bit better in Methylene blue. No colour change with KOH. There is also some kind of mass that stains fuchsia in congo red. Not sure if an artefact, but cant be an artefact in all of them.


Spores


(4.8) 5.4 - 6.4 (7) × (2.6) 2.7 - 3.2 (3.4) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.8 - 2.3 (2.7) ; N = 37
V = (21) 22 - 31 (39) µm3
Me = 5.9 × 2.9 µm ; Qe = 2 ; Ve = 26 µm3


No asci  or ascospores present so this is some Anamorph. 

It was growing through cracks of thin bark of branches of Ailanthus altissimus (Tree of heaven) in a burnt area. The substrate looks black but the bark is not burnt. 

Your help is appreciated!

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Ethan Crenson, 19-11-2024 20:13
Re : Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)
It reminds me of Stilbocrea gracilipes.
Stephen Martin, 19-11-2024 20:20
Stephen Martin
Re : Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)
Ethan !!! you are a genius :-)  Very hot or probably bingo!!!  I chek the details of this species, but gross morphology is very close 

https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/384449-Stilbocrea-gracilipes/browse_photos
Stephen Martin, 19-11-2024 20:36
Stephen Martin
Re : Synnematous fungus with pink heads (looking like a slime mould!)