20-05-2026 17:47
Margot en Geert VullingsWe found this Mollisia on dead Juncus stems mown l
20-05-2026 21:49
Margot en Geert VullingsWe found this Lachnum on Juncus stems mown last ye
21-05-2026 17:01
Pierre RepellinBonjour à toutes et à tous,Je recherche l'articl
20-05-2026 20:08
Andreas Millinger
Good evening,another quite distinctive find from M
20-05-2026 12:57
Ingo Ibelshäuser
Hello everybody, on decayed hardwood e.g. Quercus
22-04-2026 20:54
Enrique Rubio
Hi to everybody.This Pyrenopeziza grew in moist le
19-05-2026 12:55
Hardware Tony
After checking Gminder and Otto's library I cannot
A recent foray in Norfolk, England found a group of small cup fungi on the sawn surface of an Ilex (holly) trunk.
Apothecia: 0.6-0.9mm diameter, short-stalked, inner surface smooth, yellow/orange, outer surface covered in brown hairs
Hairs: 90-100 x 4-4.5 mostly rough walled, septate, some with granular tips
Spores: 5.5-7 x 2-2.5 single celled
Paraphyses project up to 25um above asci (no croziers seen)
We have identified this as Neodasyscypha cerina but note that spore dimensions are a little larger than described in FTE2 and Thompson's Ascomycetes in Colour.
The cups were clustered on a bed of decaying Melanomma pulvus-pyrius; none of the apothecia were actually on the sawn wood. We can find no reference of N. cerina with another fungus in the literature but it is entirely possible that the discos were growing on a dead fungus and not parasitic on the pyrenomycete.
Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
Tony Moverley
on behalf of the Norfolk Fungus Study Group
