Hymenoscyphus salicellus (Fr.) Dennis
No common name
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
No common name
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include a minute brownish yellow, smooth cup with a yellowish interior, a short stem, scattered growth on bark of fallen willow branches, and microscopic characters. Fuckel regards this species as a variety of Helotium virgultorum (here considered as Hymenoscyphus virgultorum).
Microscopic:
spores 25-30 x 5-7 microns, "fusoid, with the ends acute, straight or curved, usually containing one or two oil-drops, becoming spuriously 1-3-septate"; asci 8-spored, reaching a length of 75-100 microns and a width of 12-25 microns, clavate; paraphyses filiform, reaching a width of 2 microns, (Seaver)
Notes:
Hymenoscyphus salicellus is found in OR as well as Europe, (Seaver). There are two collections from BC at the University of British Columbia.
Habitat and Range
Habitat
scattered, emerging through bark of fallen branches of Salix (willow)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Saccobolus violascens Boud.