10-04-2025 10:09
Mathias Hass
Hi, Found in March on last years stick from Rubus
10-04-2025 16:22
Bernard CLESSE
Bonjour à toutes et tous,Pourriez-vous me confirm
10-04-2025 21:52
Andreas Millinger
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Vasileios Kaounas
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Francois Guay
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Miguel Ángel Ribes
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Edvin Johannesen
I have a fresh specimen of a Ceratosphaeria on dea
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Blasco Rafael
Hola, alguna idea de por que genero tengo que mira
Cryptodiscus on Pinus
Juuso Äikäs,
10-03-2025 18:51
These apparent Cryptodiscus fruitbodies with a pale margin were growing on a fallen, decorticated Pinus sylvestris branch in a mesic heath forest.
Asci narrow, 8-spored, IKI negative (not sure about croziers). Paraphyses with a swollen, sometimes irregularly shaped tip.
Spores 2-celled, measuring 7.5 - 9.7 × 2.0 - 2.6 µm, Q = 2.9 - 4.9; avg = 8.4 × 2.3 µm, Qav = 3.8; n = 8.
I think the macro and micro would support C. foveolaris, but that species is supposed to grow on hardwood. Could this still be it, or is there another alternative?
Lothar Krieglsteiner,
10-03-2025 18:54
Re : Cryptodiscus on Pinus
I do not know a reason why C. foveolaris should not grow on conifer would, occasionally. I think it fits rather well - without having a very close sight.
Yours, Lothar
Yours, Lothar
Hans-Otto Baral,
10-03-2025 21:24
Re : Cryptodiscus on Pinus
I saw it only once on a conifer (Pinus), but many dozen times on angiosperms. Cryptodiscus pini has larger curved spores and is much darker.
Juuso Äikäs,
10-03-2025 22:00
Re : Cryptodiscus on Pinus
Thanks Lothar and Zotto. I guess I'll name this C. foveolaris then.
I'm also rather familiar with C. pini -- it seems to be very common here. In fact I found it on the same trip on another branch just minutes before, and have found it before many times with almost no effort.