Trichobolus

I brought back a few dung samples from a trip to the IOM and it has produced one or two really interesting ascos.

This was the best of the bunch.

It looked like a Lasiobolus with its long non-septate hairs

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but this one had septate hairs and I could not find any species which had this feature.

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With the help as ever from Ascofrance it was keyed out as a species only described a few years ago Trichobolus dextrinoidosetosus.

The key features were the septate hairs with swollen and sometimes simple roots which are dextrinoid. Other Trichobolus have huge asci with anything between 1500 – 8000 spores. This new species has only 8.

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Not on FRDBI yet but hopefully will be soon.

Mal