08-11-2024 17:36
Juuso ÄikäsRecently I posted here my finding of small white a
04-11-2024 17:32
Yves AntoinetteBonjour, je pense qu'il peut s'agir de Trichoderma
23-10-2024 17:27
Enrique Rubio
Hi againThese tiny apothecia (100-200 µm) were gr
06-11-2024 20:07
B Shelbourne
• Macro and habitat suggest Hymenoscyphus s.l.,
04-09-2024 21:02
Stephen Mifsud
I have found an interesting Xylaria growing on fal
06-11-2024 11:59
Stephen Mifsud
I am trying to identify a Cheilymenia sp. using ke
05-11-2024 18:00
Karen PoulsenHello, Can anyone help with this one? On twigs o
Hi to everyoneThis superficial, globose, finely craked, blackish-brown stromata, 10 mm high 15 mm broad is narrowly attached on bark of Acacia melanoxylon together with stromata of Daldinia sp., Jumillera cinerea and Nemania aureolutea.
The small monostichous perithecia are more or less globose, 0.6-0.8 x 0.5-0.7 mm, with a roundish conspicuous papilla
KOH-extractable pigments brightly greenish. Asci long stipitate 225-262 x 9-10, pars sporifera 142-160, 8-sspored, with a conspicuous hat shaped apical apparatus deeply blue in Mlz. and IKI, longer than broad. Ascospores olive brownish, 21-27 x 7-8.5, with a germ-slit shorter spore lenght on the less convex side. Perispore indehiscent in KOH.
Could be a penzigioid Xylaria species? Are normal the existence of KOH-extractable pigments for these fungi?
Thanks again
this is indeed a nice penzigioid Xylaria matching no known species in the literature. You are right, the greenish pigments in KOH are rarely encountered in this genus, they are just known from tropical taxa like X. telfairii or X. olobapha and relatives. Moreover the reddish brown coating and the ascospore morphology set it apart from species with similar stromata.
Xylariaceae are often endophytic and they likely travelled with their host from Australia and like your Daldinia represent extra-European species.
I suggest you send the Xylaria to Yu-Ming Ju in Taiwan who is very interested in penzigioid taxa and who will cultivate it. If the material is plentiful, I would be happy to have some stromata too...
Saludos,
Jacques
Hi Jacques
Allways your magical help!
I can send you the only one stromata that I have found. Do you want it? The Daldinia species on Acacia m. with greenish pigments will be sent to Marc Stadler for to study it.
Thanks again
Yes, send it over, I will forward it to Yu-Ming.
Jacques