Rutola graminis

[Steve]

Hi,

This was on Deschampsia caespitosa in a damp woodland near Sheffield. It looked like specks of mud on the dead grass. On microscopy it looks like Torula herbarum. In Ellis & Ellis it’s spelt “Rotula”. But it’s a lot smaller and darker brown than Torula herbarum. Interestingly. Rutola and Torula are anagrams.

[Chris Yeates]

Hello Steve.

The anagramatisation is quite deliberate – see: http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/anagram.html” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/anagram.html. That whole website is well worth exploring – though unforgivably fungi appear to be totally absent . . .

Chris

[Steve]

Good to see that some taxonomists have a sense of humour 😆

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