2011-07-21 Glonium stellatum 159062

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Summary[edit] Description: English: Glonium stellatum Image location: Blackstone, Massachusetts, USA This fungus starts off a small roundish patches of radiating carbonaceous hysteriothecia on a coarsely woolly black subiculum. The fruiting bodies grow and extend over a larger area, becoming confluent and creating crustlike patches many centimeters in extent. I saw a rotten old one on an oak log that was more than ten cm in length. I’ve found it two times now and both were on rotted oak. Used references: http://www.eboehm.com/glonium.html Eric Boehm’s hysteriothecial fungi website Based on microscopic features: Bitunicate asci. 8-spored, cylindrical with shortish stipe. Mine average a little larger than what’s listed in the descriptions but who’s counting microns? What!? Ascospores average 26.5 × 7 micrometers. Hyaline. Note that lovely black subiculum! : For more information about this, see the observation page at Mushroom Observer. English | español | français | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | português | +/−. Date: 21 July 2011. Source: : This image is Image Number 159062 at Mushroom Observer, a source for mycological images. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. English | español | français | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | português | +/−. Author: : This image was created by user Jason Karakehian (Jason Karakehian) at Mushroom Observer, a source for mycological images.You can contact this user here. English | español | français | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | português | +/−.