Sighting 3406420
Rosellinia group
Molonglo Valley, ACT
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| Rosellinia group | Heino1 | 2 May 2019 | |
| Unverified | CathB | 5 Aug 2018 |
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User's notes
On old dry wood.
7 comments
28 Aug 2018
Cath it looks like Rosellinia thelena, though it may be too large. What do you think Heino? Cath were you able to get any photos of the spores? Or would you be able to get someone to look at the spores for you? Do you think the wood it was growing on was native or exotic?
29 Aug 2018
Thanks Pam. I went back to this site today and collected a small specimen that I could give to Heino if he is interested. The wood (a large fallen branch) is almost certainly a eucalypyt. It was under a large tree which I think is probably E. melliodora.
29 Aug 2018
Cath, great, well done. If Heino is willing to look at the speciment and the spores that should take us all to a greater understanding of what this great little species is. I look forward to seeing what the spores look like and hearing Heino's opinion. Will you contact Heino?
1 Oct 2018
He has the specimen, but I'm not sure if he's had a chance to look at it yet, or whether it had any spores.
3 May 2019
While I’ll leave this in ‘Rosellinia group’, I suspect this is a Rosellinia proper. Lots of spores, but I didn’t find any asci. However, I then found out something new to me. In a paper about Rosellinia by Liliane Petrini (who has studied the genus in depth), I read this sentence: The asci dissolve very quickly and are rarely seen in mature material.
3 May 2019
Great. Many thanks for that ID Heino and the additional information re Liliane Petrini and the dissolving asci!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.071491-35.273096
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 9 Jul 2018 03:26 PM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
Collections
- CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust <perithecial> Other fungi on wood Fungi Rosellinia group
Species information
- Rosellinia group Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 646.1m to 892.56m Recorded at altitude