Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
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Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
Hello,
found three days ago before the temperatures went down:
Lamprospora miniata s.l., most likely the var. ratisbonensis
growing at the border of a field road, every year in winter since 2015
best regards,
Andreas
found three days ago before the temperatures went down:
Lamprospora miniata s.l., most likely the var. ratisbonensis
growing at the border of a field road, every year in winter since 2015
best regards,
Andreas
Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
Hi Andreas
Is this quite rare is Germany (and elsewhere) if the information on this website can be believed?
http://www.octospora.de/Lminiataratisbonensis.htm
Accordingly, I think we would not see it in the U.K. A beautiful little thing nonetheless.
Thanks for sharing. A
Is this quite rare is Germany (and elsewhere) if the information on this website can be believed?
http://www.octospora.de/Lminiataratisbonensis.htm
Accordingly, I think we would not see it in the U.K. A beautiful little thing nonetheless.
Thanks for sharing. A
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Hello,
I'm not so sure wether I can tell that apart from var. miniata - it was Jan (the owner of the cited website) that determined it as such, but also with an "?".
And Lamprospora miniata is one of the more common species, also in the UK I suppose.
But those bryophil ascos are in many areas or even countries very underrecorded, so why should it be rare in Britain?
Have a look at old walls (non-calcareous stones!) of cemetries or castles or when calcareous soil then in mosses on the ground - or in dunes, or pionier vegetation of quarries etc. .... In the case of L. miniata it was just a field-road on calcareous soil like thousand other in the region ...
It's great fun to find those tiny gems, have some tries and don't be frustrated if you don't succeed in the beginning. But for determination you ALWAYS need a microscope ....
best regards,
Andreas
I'm not so sure wether I can tell that apart from var. miniata - it was Jan (the owner of the cited website) that determined it as such, but also with an "?".
And Lamprospora miniata is one of the more common species, also in the UK I suppose.
But those bryophil ascos are in many areas or even countries very underrecorded, so why should it be rare in Britain?
Have a look at old walls (non-calcareous stones!) of cemetries or castles or when calcareous soil then in mosses on the ground - or in dunes, or pionier vegetation of quarries etc. .... In the case of L. miniata it was just a field-road on calcareous soil like thousand other in the region ...
It's great fun to find those tiny gems, have some tries and don't be frustrated if you don't succeed in the beginning. But for determination you ALWAYS need a microscope ....
best regards,
Andreas
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Ganoderna lucidum
Ganoderna lucidum - lacquered bracket. Westonbirt Arboretum, 14 January 2017. Unfortunately not a great photo but an interesting find.
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Hi,RuberCalitium wrote:Ganoderna lucidum - lacquered bracket. Westonbirt Arboretum, 14 January 2017. Unfortunately not a great photo but an interesting find.
Nice find.
For future reference, please do not change the text in the "Subject" header box, (above the main text reply box), as doing so retitles the thread with whatever you put there from that point onwards - and obviously, this thread is not entitled Ganoderma lucidum!

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Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
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Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
After a successful search for Sarcoscypha I took home a few stalks of unknown origin left over from the clearing out of a ditch on a local bog Nature Reserve. Amongst the one or two species I found on these stalks was a much less photogenic but much more interesting small hairy asco which turned out (with the help of Ascofrance) to be a Hilberina, a family I have never come across(or heard of) before. With a key provided by one of the members it came out as H punctata. One of the characteristics of the group is the septate, bent and sharply pointed spore (one end only). My specimen was bent but rounded at both ends and although the size was a bit out it was confirmed by the author of the paper to be Hilberina punctata a first to the UK. It will be sent of to Kew for their appraisal.
Mal
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Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
Hi Mal, which species Sarcoscypha did you find? The vast majority checked microscopically in Glamorgan VC41 are S.austriaca with very few S.coccinea. Mark
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Congratulations, Mal!Flaxton wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:31 amAfter a successful search for Sarcoscypha I took home a few stalks of unknown origin left over from the clearing out of a ditch on a local bog Nature Reserve. Amongst the one or two species I found on these stalks was a much less photogenic but much more interesting small hairy asco which turned out (with the help of Ascofrance) to be a Hilberina, a family I have never come across(or heard of) before. With a key provided by one of the members it came out as H punctata. One of the characteristics of the group is the septate, bent and sharply pointed spore (one end only). My specimen was bent but rounded at both ends and although the size was a bit out it was confirmed by the author of the paper to be Hilberina punctata a first to the UK. It will be sent of to Kew for their appraisal.
Mal
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Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
I think there have only been a couple of finds of S coccinea in Yorkshire in the last 20 years and I am not sure if they id'd with the newest of literature. I have found it at half a dozen sites never managed S coccinea.
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Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
Excellent Mal - how many of these discoveries will ever come to light? With so few people looking

I've just knocked one taxon off the Yorkshire list (Dothiorella candollei (Berk. & Broome) Petr. is now recognised as an anamorph of Hyponectria buxi - already on the list) so this keeps the numbers up - 5310 taxa (excluding lichens).
Cheers
Chris
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