Other black fungi <hysterothecial>


 

The bulk of the fungi in this sub-group produce hysterothecia as fruitbodies. A hysterothecium looks like a pair of black lips, no more than a few millimetres long. An individual hysterothecium is very hard to spot but hysterothecia usually turn up in large colonies. That makes spotting a little easier, but not guaranteed. A colony of a hundred fruitbodies may still occupy no more than a square centimetre or two.

 

One hysterothecial species, Glonium circumserpens, occurs on soil.

 


Other black fungi <hysterothecial>

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GlossyGal wrote:
29 Jul 2024
Thank you Teresa.

Unidentified Other black fungi <hysterothecial>
Teresa wrote:
29 Jul 2024
agree with your ID

Unidentified Other black fungi <hysterothecial>
Heino1 wrote:
17 Jun 2024
I collected the material photographed here and the identification is based on a look at the spores. The material has been lodged as collection HL6788 at the herbarium in Canberra.

Anteaglonium parvulum
Heino wrote:
26 Jul 2017
In the leftmost of the inset spore images in Photo 2 you see a pale immature spore. The mature spores have a deep colour and each has a swollen cell (alongside the slight, near-central pinched in part of the spore wall), a feature of the genus. Spores in this specimen measured 36-50 x 10-12 microns.

Oedohysterium sinense
Heino wrote:
22 Jul 2017
The spores shown in the two inset photos are still within asci.

Hysterobrevium mori
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