What appear to be conidia of Collembolispora barbata found in foam collected from a stream in Bristol at the end of January.
I've read Chris Yeates's account of the rediscovery of this species and wondered if this find is of any interest.
Aquatic hyphomycete
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Re: Aquatic hyphomycete
Hello Neil
You bet it is of interest! Definitely Collembolispora barbata. It's made my day . . . .
I'd be very interested in the background to the collection, either here or via PM. A paper I wrote which included the Collembolispora is now open-source, you may or may not have come across it:
https://ascomycete.org/Portals/0/Archiv ... 51-255.pdf
Cheers
Chris
PS - forgot my manners - welcome to UKFungi!
You bet it is of interest! Definitely Collembolispora barbata. It's made my day . . . .

I'd be very interested in the background to the collection, either here or via PM. A paper I wrote which included the Collembolispora is now open-source, you may or may not have come across it:
https://ascomycete.org/Portals/0/Archiv ... 51-255.pdf
Cheers
Chris
PS - forgot my manners - welcome to UKFungi!
"You must know it's right, the spore is on the wind tonight"
Steely Dan - "Rose Darling"
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Re: Aquatic hyphomycete
Hello Chris,
many thanks for the warm welcome. The foam was collected from Brislington Brook as it passes through St Anne's Wood in south-east Bristol
shortly before joining the river Avon. The final sentence of Brislington Brook's Wikipedia entry states that "water quality remains poor with
relatively high oxygen demand", this doesn't sound too promising but things are much better than they used to be and several small man-made
waterfalls in the last mile or two of the stream's course help the oxygenation.
Despite living in this part of Bristol all my life and owning a copy of Ingold's Guide to Aquatic Hyphomycetes for the last thirty years this was
the first time I'd examined foam from a stream, this species was on the first slide I prepared.
Considering its apparent rarity I was surprised to find a photograph of a conidium in a paper published in 2015 in Fungal Ecology*, one of twenty
images of aquatic hyphomycetes showing the variety of form but not commented on further.
Best wishes, Neil. * Putting a link in a post is beyond me but the details are Biogeography of aquatic hyphomycetes: current knowledge and
future perspectives. Duarte et al. Free PDF available.
many thanks for the warm welcome. The foam was collected from Brislington Brook as it passes through St Anne's Wood in south-east Bristol
shortly before joining the river Avon. The final sentence of Brislington Brook's Wikipedia entry states that "water quality remains poor with
relatively high oxygen demand", this doesn't sound too promising but things are much better than they used to be and several small man-made
waterfalls in the last mile or two of the stream's course help the oxygenation.
Despite living in this part of Bristol all my life and owning a copy of Ingold's Guide to Aquatic Hyphomycetes for the last thirty years this was
the first time I'd examined foam from a stream, this species was on the first slide I prepared.
Considering its apparent rarity I was surprised to find a photograph of a conidium in a paper published in 2015 in Fungal Ecology*, one of twenty
images of aquatic hyphomycetes showing the variety of form but not commented on further.
Best wishes, Neil. * Putting a link in a post is beyond me but the details are Biogeography of aquatic hyphomycetes: current knowledge and
future perspectives. Duarte et al. Free PDF available.
Re: Aquatic hyphomycete
Why my post came out looking like this I don't know.
I'll have to preview everything in future.
I'll have to preview everything in future.
Re: Aquatic hyphomycete
Hello Chris,
sorry about the delay. I should say first that without your excellent pictures and identification of this species I would have
ignored it, so most of the credit is yours.
The foam was collected from Brislington Brook as it passes through St Anne's Wood in south-east Bristol shortly before
joining the river Avon. The final sentence of Brislington Brook's Wikipedia entry states that " water quality remains poor with
relatively high biochemical oxygen demand", this doesn't sound too promising but things are much better than they used to
be and several small man-made waterfalls in the last mile or two of the stream's course help the oxygenation.
Considering the rarity I was surprised to find a photograph of a conidium in a paper published in 2015 in Fungal ecology*, one
of twenty images of aquatic hyphomycetes showing the variety of form but not commented on further.
Best wishes, Neil.
* Biogeography of aquatic hyphomycetes, current knowledge and future perspectives. Duarte et al.
sorry about the delay. I should say first that without your excellent pictures and identification of this species I would have
ignored it, so most of the credit is yours.
The foam was collected from Brislington Brook as it passes through St Anne's Wood in south-east Bristol shortly before
joining the river Avon. The final sentence of Brislington Brook's Wikipedia entry states that " water quality remains poor with
relatively high biochemical oxygen demand", this doesn't sound too promising but things are much better than they used to
be and several small man-made waterfalls in the last mile or two of the stream's course help the oxygenation.
Considering the rarity I was surprised to find a photograph of a conidium in a paper published in 2015 in Fungal ecology*, one
of twenty images of aquatic hyphomycetes showing the variety of form but not commented on further.
Best wishes, Neil.
* Biogeography of aquatic hyphomycetes, current knowledge and future perspectives. Duarte et al.
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Re: Aquatic hyphomycete
Hello Neil
Thanks for the information. I assume that the reason that the Collembolispora is figured in the Fungal Ecology paper is because one of the authors, Fernanda Cássio, was one of the original authors involved in finding and describing the fungus.
I can't help but wonder how many times in the past people may have seen this but were unable to put a name to it - I have quite a few images of "unknowns", some quite distinctive.
Cheers
Chris
btw - to produce a link on this site, you highlight the url and click the double-link button . . . .
Thanks for the information. I assume that the reason that the Collembolispora is figured in the Fungal Ecology paper is because one of the authors, Fernanda Cássio, was one of the original authors involved in finding and describing the fungus.
I can't help but wonder how many times in the past people may have seen this but were unable to put a name to it - I have quite a few images of "unknowns", some quite distinctive.
Cheers
Chris
btw - to produce a link on this site, you highlight the url and click the double-link button . . . .
"You must know it's right, the spore is on the wind tonight"
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Re: Aquatic hyphomycete
This species has just turned up again in Yorkshire. Collected from a small streamlet in the garden at RHS Harlow Carr in Harrogate last week. My photo is not particularly good but all the appendages were there!
Interestingly the species was seen in NW Portugal during work done in 2001-2002. See Pascoal (2005 ) Aquatic hyphomycete diversity in streams of Northwest
Portugal. Fungal Diversity 19: 109-128
Interestingly the species was seen in NW Portugal during work done in 2001-2002. See Pascoal (2005 ) Aquatic hyphomycete diversity in streams of Northwest
Portugal. Fungal Diversity 19: 109-128
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