Another find I'm looking for help with:

Place of discovery: dead, damp, greasy, partially debarked hardwood branch with a broad strip of Exidia effusa, hidden under partially protruding bark, on the round NSG Auenwald near Deuz

MTB: 5014,434 Date of discovery: 02.03.2025

Fruiting bodies in rows and small groups with a total of 9 specimens, bowl-shaped round, sessile, with a clearly recognizable edge that protrudes above the hymenium; colorless to milky white, very soft, discoloring to yellowish-hyaline with age, completely glabrous;
Ø up to 640µm, h up to 200µm;

No membranous covering layer is recognizable on the hymenium and paraphyses and asci are not attached to each other;
Practically no asci were to be found in the first fruiting body (although externally overripe), while the second fruiting body showed at least some asci that appeared quite ripe. Free spores were not to be found.

Asci were cylindrical to clavat, clearly truncate in profile, filled with 8 spores each; details of the base not visible at first sight;
28.5x3.0 - 27.5x2.4

Spores, only observed and measured in the ascus, broadly oval to roundish; practically not visible in water, later stained with Congo red (NH3) the spore outlines became visible; measured in Congo red and in the ascus:
2,2x1,4
2,3x1,5
2,3x1,7

Paraphyses cylindrical, 3-5 septate, filled with refractive light;

Can someone please tell me if my suspicion applies to orbilia frangulae?

Many thanks and best regards

Harald

Hans-Otto Baral, 13-03-2025 21:48

Re : Orbilia frangulae?

Nicht ausgeschlossen aber tot unmöglich zu bestimmen. O. frangulae hat aber hakige Paraphysen.