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24/01/2025

Probably undescribed species of Cheilymenia.

Close to Cheilymenia raripila, but with too many hairs and too wide subreticulum on the ascospores. In vitro on horse dung.

(23) 23.3 - 26.4 (26.6) × (12.3) 12.5 - 13.8 (13.9) µm
Q = (1.9) 1.9 (2) ; N = 10
Me = 25.2 × 13.3 µm ; Qe = 1.9

Marginal hairs up to 340 µm long

19/01/2025

Spooneromyces laeticolor

Found growing on either grass remains or needle litter.

Asp: (17.2) 17.7 - 21 (21.7) × (8.7) 8.9 - 10.3 (10.5) µm
Q = (1.7) 1.8 - 2.4 (2.5) ; N = 23
Me = 19.4 × 9.6 µm ; Qe = 2

Recorded from Ireland for the first time
15/01/25

16/01/2025

Favourite Ascos from 2024

10/01/2025

Octospora humosa agg.

Asp: (19.2) 19.25 - 23.7 (24) × (11.6) 11.9 - 13.8 (13.9) µm
Q = 1.6 - 1.7 (1.7) ; N = 14
Me = 21.4 × 13 µm ; Qe = 1.7

Not a lot of historical information online I found from here, one record of O. musci-muralis from 1990, N. rutilans from 1997, and two O. humosa from 2007, this perhaps only 5th Octospora ever recorded from Ireland.

08/01/2025

Plicaria endocarpoides

Ascospores: (9.2) 9.6 - 10.2 (10.5) × (9.2) 9.5 - 10.2 (10.4) µm
Q = 1 ; N = 25
Me = 9.9 × 9.8 µm ; Qe = 1

Not yet recorded in Ireland
02/01/2025

06/01/2025

Hygrocybe garajonayensis

ID via ITS & LSU sequence. Originally described from Parque Nacional de Garajonay, Canary Islands (hence the epithet) in July 2024.

This collection is the first record for the British Isles.

10/11/2023
Ireland

23/12/2024

Trichophaea abundans

Growing directly on burnt wood in post-fire area.

Ascospores: 12.4 - 16.5 x 6.8 - 8.1 μm
Hairs hyaline / subhyaline up to 180 μm long

Recorded from Ireland for the first time
18/12/2024

14/12/2024

Geoscypha tenacella

Growing on burnt remains in a forest post-fire area.

Asci amyloid with WTR type reaction
Spores with round cyanophilic warts

Asp: (11.7) 12.6 - 13.2 (13.5) × (6.2) 6.4 - 7.1 (7.5) µm
Q = (1.7) 1.8 - 2 (2.1) ; N = 28
Me = 12.9 × 6.9 µm ; Qe = 1.9

New to Ireland
10/12/2024

07/12/2024

Chlorociboria aeruginascens
Green Elf Cups

01/12/2024

Cuphophyllus colemannianus

A very rare waxcap from the island

30/11/2024

Ascocoryne inflata nom. prov

(15.5) 18.7 - 22.2 (23.9) × (5.6) 5.8 - 6.7 (7.4) µm
Q = (2.6) 2.8 - 3.7 (4.2) ; N = 30
Me = 20.3 × 6.2 µm ; Qe = 3.3

Not yet recorded from Ireland
November 2024

23/11/2024

Cyathus olla

21/11/2024

Ascocoryne cylichnium s.l.

Spores: (22.7) 25.9 - 29.3 (30.7) × (5.6) 5.7 - 6.3 (7.1) µm
Q = (3.7) 4.2 - 5.05 (5.1) ; N = 17
Me = 27.6 × 6 µm ; Qe = 4.6

Conidia: (2.9) 3 - 3.5 (3.6) × (2.1) 2.2 - 2.6 (2.7) µm
Q = (1.1) 1.3 - 1.46 (1.5) ; N = 27
Me = 3.2 × 2.4 µm ; Qe = 1.3

From Ireland

17/11/2024

Cordyceps militaris

10/11/2024

Gliophorus reginae
Jubilee Waxcap

07/11/2024

More F. claudopus 😁

05/11/2024

Scutellinia cejpii

Spores: (23.4) 24.4 - 25.8 (26.4) × (11.1) 11.6 - 12.2 (12.3) µm ; Q = 2 - 2.2 (2.4) ; N = 10 ; Me = 25.2 × 11.9 µm ; Qe = 2.1

Hairs: up to 500 µm long, multifurcate base

Single apothecia growing on rotting wood. Only one previous record in Ireland from 1954

30/10/2024

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