Hello,
Am struggling with this one from Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset and hoping someone might be able to help. It's on a hard limestone vertical surface. I sectioned one of the little perithecia looking structures and got hundreds of 3-septate spores. No asci present so presumably a lichenicolous fungus?
Thanks,
Paul
licen on calcareous rock face
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Neil Sanderson
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Re: licen on calcareous rock face
Possibly the lichen is Lecanora campestris? Not that that appears to help!
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Re: licen on calcareous rock face
Thanks Neil. May be of use in the future. I'll archive for now and hope further clues will come in the future.
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Re: licen on calcareous rock face
Scrub that, just twigged, the conidiophores and the septate conidia reminded me of a Strigulaceae, then I remembered there is a Strigulaceae found on limestone in just your area: Swinscowia calcarea. It must be this, the conidia are very good match. See https://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/ ... a-calcarea and https://britishlichensociety.org.uk/res ... a-calcarea. The map shows few records, so a good find
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