
04-06-2025 15:10
Stefan JakobssonHi forum, On a herbaceous stem, possibly Aegopodi

03-06-2025 20:52
Stefan BlaserHello everybody, I didn't get anywhere with this

20-05-2025 22:15

I found this ascomycete at the base of a dead fern

30-05-2025 17:54
Louis DENYHello forum!Touvé près de Belfort, altitude 350m

31-05-2025 00:51
Ethan CrensonHello, Last week in New York City this Orbilia wa
Small-spored O. flavidobrunneola
Viktorie Halasu,
14-04-2025 23:19

I've microscoped exsiccate of an Otidea which looks a lot like O. flavidobrunneola, but the spores are too small. Everything else is OK - macro appearance of the exsiccate, paraphyses shape, spore shape, ectal excipulum structure, KOH and MLZ reactions. I have studied six other collections of flavidobrunneola with only a small difference in spore size, but this one is distinctly different. I measured sporeprint deposited on hymenium surface, so the apothecia should have been mature (although this species notoriously matures tardily).
What do you think - is it flavidobrunneola or not? Czechia, collected in July, 370 m a.s.l., on edge of a path under broadleaved trees (Tilia, Fraxinus), bedrock is paragneiss.
Thank you for your opinions.
Viktorie