Cercophora scortea
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Cercophora scortea
Lasiospheriaceae, Sordariales, Ascomycota Voucher specimen 1999-114 Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA On dead branch in bottomland forest. 13 August 1999 Collected by Kitty Griffith This voucher is located with S.M. Huhndorf's ascomycete collections at F. as S.M. Huhndorf 4131. The micrograph images by Andrew Miller show characteristic obpyriform (pear shaped) fruitbodies with setae (hairs). This species has gelatinous fruitbody walls. Spores have swollen dark brown head and hyaline (clear) tail. |
Cercophora scortea 1. Fruitbodies (x25) with inset of single fruitbody (x50). 2. Mature brown-headed ascospores with inset of single ascospore showing dark brown head and pale brown tail. In the "little black dots on wood" category is Cercophora scortea (Sordariales, Ascomycota; voucher 1999-114). Apparently this is only the second reported collection of this species in the United States; the first one being found in Louisiana by Gary Samuels. It is also known from Canada and Europe. This specimen is being cultured and studied by Andrew Miller and Sabine Huhndorf of The Field Museum as part of their investigation on the systematics of these pyrenomycetes -- Studies in the Lasiosphaeriaceae. While carefully examining the various chunks of wood and branches on the identification tables, Andy found the Cercophora on wood with the jelly fungus Calocera cornea (voucher 1999-109) brought in by Kitty Griffith. The systematics of the wood inhabiting Cercophora species are currently under revision (Miller & Huhndorf, in prep). |
Other Selected Fungi:
| Amanita novinupta, 1998, California |
| Cercophora scortea, 1999, Missouri |
| Russula avellaneiceps, 1997, Colorado |
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