Mycoporum lacteum?

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    petemartin
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      An interesting bit of “by-catch” ( I was looking for Eopyrenula) from an old hazel by Ullswater: another silvery smirr but the perithecia looked a bit odd under the hand lens and turn out to be stroma under the dissecting scope.

      The spores are colourless ( none were dark), and almost all 1 septate ( I found one that was 3 septate).

      Size 22.4 -25.6 x 6.4-8um.

      It keyed out remarkably easily to Mycoporum lacteum, which I’ve not come across before.

      Does this seem right?

      Many thanks

      #46744
      Paul Cannon
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        Looks good to me, they look rather like an Arthonia/Coniocoarpon in the field but their insides are quite different.

        I’ve finally given up patience with the FGBI website and have started a new one. Not much content as yet, but I’ve added a page for M. lacteum and you should be able to find it by googling fungibi.info. Tell me if that doesn’t work!

        Best wishes

        Paul

        #46745

        Hi Paul, I just tried accessing the new site by googling fungibi.info. but “Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page” with fungidb.org/fungidb/. Is this just my Firefox settings?

        #46746
        Paul Cannon
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          I should think so, though I use Firefox too. Try this instead, for the moment…

          https://sites.google.com/view/fungi-of-britain-and-ireland/home

          Best wishes

          Paul

          #46747
          petemartin
          Participant

            Thank you Paul.

            Link works, google finds it, the website looks good.

            Cheers

            Pete

            #46748
            Neil Sanderson
            Senior Moderator

              Yes looks OK for Mycoporum lacteum. This can occur on species other than Holly, but usually in sites with old Holly and big Mycoporum lacteum populations. Is this from the Lake District?

              Good luck with the new site Paul, looks good, it will be good not to have to fight with the scratchpad site to get glimpses of the photos!

              Neil

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