Accès membres

Mot de passe perdu? S'inscrire

05-02-2025 11:50

Margot en Geert Vullings

On the inside of Salix bark we found white rosette

29-01-2025 18:12

Blasco Rafael Blasco Rafael

Hola, he encontrado estos pequeños Ascos liqueniz

05-02-2025 10:54

Adam Polhorský

Hello, I'm looking for descriptions of Apodospora

28-02-2017 09:34

Roberta Pini

Good morning,I am looking for the paper by Lundqvi

04-02-2025 20:26

Yanick BOULANGER

BonsoirJe pense que c'est Mollisia cinereaJ'ai hé

02-02-2025 15:07

Harald Homa Harald Homa

Hello everyone! While working through the finds f

01-02-2025 18:00

Angel Pintos Angel Pintos

Hello,anybody has the following article:Botryospha

01-02-2025 10:01

Vasileios Kaounas Vasileios Kaounas

found in the soil, in olive trees and Pistacia ver

30-01-2025 14:54

Karl Soler Kinnerbäck

Hi! Found this one on or next to some Juncus speci

30-01-2025 10:32

victor servranckx

Hello, I am a biology student from Belgium and on

« < 83 84 85 86 87 > »
Rutstroemia??
William Slosse, 06-12-2020 14:25
William SlosseHello everyone,

on November 26, 2020 I found an asco growing at the base of presumably Carex arenaria. The site is located in the gray dunes in Koksijde, Belgium (coastal area). The asco appeared in abundance and I think it could be a Rutstroemia.
Can somenone give me a clue?


Spores: elliptical; filled at the poles with clusters of droplets; Av 16.34x6.50µm (N = 17)


Asci: J-; uniseriated, 8-spored


Paraphyses: filiform; cilindric; sometimes branched at the top; multiseptated; finely encrusted (?); diameter on average around 3.17 µm


Hairs (?) or paraphyses on the edge: thick-walled; multiseptated; finely encrusted; tapered top; content colored.


The photo series in the same order with a final image of the outer excipulum.
All measurements were done in water.


Kind regards, William

  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
  • message #66343
Enrique Rubio, 06-12-2020 14:54
Enrique Rubio
Re : Rutstroemia??
Hi William
Look for Rutstroemia maritima, The asci should have croziers.
Enrique
William Slosse, 06-12-2020 15:51
William Slosse
Re : Rutstroemia??
Hi Enrique,

Thanks for your comment.
The asci do indeed have croziers, but the host plant here is not Ammophila arenaria.
I do not know whether Rutstroemia maritima has also been observed on other dunegrass varieties.
Do you sometimes have information about that?

R. paludosa occurs on various grasses but has a distinct stem. Here, however, all fruiting bodies are sessile or with a very short stalk.

  • message #66346
  • message #66346
Hans-Otto Baral, 06-12-2020 16:15
Hans-Otto Baral
Re : Rutstroemia??
Hi William

how can such a big apothecium grow out of such a thin culm? Wonderful!

Perhaps a cross section of the substrate would better clarify the host.

Did you test Lugol? Your Melzer did not even stain the plasma, perhaps too diluted.

Do you have the spore photos also without measures? I prefer to save clean images and a summary of the spore size instead.

R. maritima is not easy. There exist amyloid and inamyloid collections on Ammophila,  and R. calopus (with croziers) is therefore not clearly distinguished. You see in my Clarireedia folder also samples on Iris by Enrique, and a sequence of one of them (with slightly amyloid asci) differs from R. maritima F118839 (HB 6860) on Ammophila (asci inamyloid) by only 1 nt (0.2%), thus must be conspecific.

Although the morphology is so similar, genetically R. maritima is distant, see my phylotree.

Zotto
  • message #66348
William Slosse, 06-12-2020 19:20
William Slosse
Re : Rutstroemia??
Hi Zotto,

thx for your reaction.
In any case, the substrate consists of a grass, not Carex. I will not be able to find a new collection at the moment, due to the recent frost, but I still have some material, including substrate, in collection.
In Lugol I notice no reaction, see photos.
However, I did the test with Melzer again and let the material soak a little longer. I think I see a very small reaction in the ascus top.
I also add some pictures of spores taken in water.
Sincerely,
William

  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
  • message #66351
Hans-Otto Baral, 06-12-2020 21:26
Hans-Otto Baral
Re : Rutstroemia??
o.k., the MLZ-pics show a yellowish-stained plasma, so iodine is present. Almost inamyloid anyhow. The Lugol-photos show no yellow at all, the concentration of iodine is too low to evoke a reaction.

Thanks for the spore photos. Your first micro-picture would also have been good. Spore size is summarized *15.7-18 x 6.2-7 µm. The smaller spores are dead or immature.

Also for me this looks like a Poaceae.
William Slosse, 07-12-2020 20:36
William Slosse
Re : Rutstroemia??
Ok, thanks, Hans-Otto.
I list the species as cf. Rutstroemia maritima because of its habitat and create an excicate.

Regards,
William