Lasiosphaeria ovina (Pers.) Ces. & De Not.
No common name
Lasiosphaeriaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
No common name
Lasiosphaeriaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Fruitbodies are tiny, woolly-appearing, whitish spheres on rotten wood with a blackish papilla at the top. Microscopic characters include yellowish cylindric ascospores often with transparent pointed appendages at the ends, biseriate in an 8-spored ascus that has a refractile body at the apex. The description is derived from Breitenbach(1).
Microscopic:
spores 36-40 x 4-5 microns, cylindric, "bent, smooth, yellowish", with droplets, "often with pointed hyaline appendages", biseriate in the ascus; asci 8-spored, 180-210 x 16-22 microns, iodine negative, "with a distinct refractile body at the apex"; no paraphyses observed; tomentum "of smooth septate hyphae" about 4 microns wide
Notes:
There is a collection from BC by O. Ceska at the University of British Columbia. The accompanying photograph was taken in WA, but distribution is widespread including Europe.
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Other Lasiosphaeria species are naked or hairy, as opposed to "furfuraceous-scurfy", (Breitenbach(1)). There is a collection of Lasiosphaeria strigosa by O. Ceska from British Columbia at the University of British ColumbiaHabitat
cespitose or growing in compact groups, on rotten wood "of a great diversity of species", fruiting all year