08-03-2025 16:21
Yanick BOULANGERBonjourDialonectria episphaeria sur Diatrype stigm
09-03-2025 08:32
Castillo Joseba
Me mandan el material seco de Galicia (España) re
08-03-2025 14:54
Ethan CrensonHello all, This is a recent find from New York Ci
08-03-2025 08:47
Danny Newman
Hello AscoFrance, I believe I may have found the
06-03-2025 21:53
Charles Grapinet
Hello, I found a very abundant Phaeosphaeria on t
06-03-2025 17:23
Vasileios Kaounas
Found 13/2/25 on moss, very far away, only almond
06-03-2025 23:27
Edvin Johannesen
Hello!I have a collection with acervuli of Asteros
04-03-2025 15:38
Hardware Tony
Found on I what I think is Phyllostachys aurea, mo
06-03-2025 11:45
Wim de GrootSeveral smal patches of Hypoxylon ticinense (sl?)
I believe I may have found the first collection of Glyphium schizosporum since 1964, and the first ever in the American Southwest (Albuquerque, NM). As far as I can tell, neither the type material nor any authoritative collection of this sp. has ever been sequenced prior to this collection:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/230681031
The four previous collections I'm aware of are these:
https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3273259&clid=0
https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1581396&clid=0
plus the Algerian type and another collection from France, mentioned in:
Zogg H. Die Hysteriaceae s. str. und Lophiaceae, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der mitteleuro-päischen Formen. Beiträge zur Kryptogamenflora der Schweiz, Band. 1962;11:1–190.
and in:
Sutton BC. Glyphium leptothecium (Earle) comb, nov. G schizosporum (Maire) Zogg, and their imperfect states. Trans Br Mycol Soc. 1970;54:255–264.
respectively.
PS: Images are available in the linked iNaturalist observation. They would be provided here as well were it not for AF's very strict image size limits. I can, however, copy the collection/annotation data from that observation:
abundant, dolobrate (= resembling the head of an axe -- new favorite vocab word), ~1mm tall
basal subtending hyphae and Peyronelia anamorph present. absurdly long spores disarticulating in absurdly long asci (up to 450µm x ~10µm)
part spores:
(18.4) 22.1 - 25.9 (28) × (2.1) 2.11 - 3 µm
Q = (7.8) 7.9 - 10.8 (12.3) ; N = 7
Me = 23.5 × 2.6 µm ; Qe = 9.2
known from high-elevation forest in North Africa, Europe, and a single collection from Mount Shasta, CA in 1950. possibly the 2nd record of this sp. in the western hemisphere (and the first in 74 years), and the 1st record in the US Southwest.