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.
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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
