keith_seifert's Identifications

•Growing on a large trunk of decaying Fagus grandifolia.

•Synnemata 0.6 to 1mm high

•Conidia (exclusive of the appendage): 109.47-132.3 x 4.39-5.02 microns

•Appendages: 49.64-62.73 x 1.22- 1.82 microns

Microscopy done in water

Several units bursting through the bark. The amount of conidia produced on each fruitbody is humongous. The fungus itself is hidden at the bottom; it is gelatinous and immerse in the wood. What the photo shows are the masses of conidia that break apart when wet. They kind of 'melt' on the wood. Conidia are produced trough some type of collar. On Ficus carica; at the edge of a preserve, in a seepage area.

Clonostachys rosea (Link: Fr.) Schroers et al. F 85

was isolated from soil at Site B in June. This is known to be mycoparasite as Gliocladium roseum, a widely distributed species. This species was transferred to Clonostachys in 2000. It is characterized by two kinds of conidiophores. The Verticillium-type primary conidiophores are formed first, then more complicated Penicilium-type secondary conidiophores are formed. The shape of conidia from both types are different from each other. The conidia are also characteristically asymmetrical. https://www.tamagawa.ac.jp/sisetu/gakujutu/alsrc/tama_kin/slide08e.htm

Stick was retrieved from a rice canal and incubated. Cotton Blue cells from second day; Kongorot cells from 3rd day. Bulbil-like cells developed on it. They start white and mature to a pink-peach tone. They don't seem to have an attachment. Conidia are starting to develop giving the fungus some kind of cauliflower appearance.

Tiny black anamorphic fungi on decorticated log. Fruitbodies about 0.5mm in height, producing whitish conidia mass at the top.
Conidia aseptate, cylindrical to ellipsoid, measured
*(4.1) 4.2 - 5.1 (5.5) × 2 - 2.29 (2.3) µm
Q = (1.8) 1.9 - 2.4 (2.5) ; N = 20
Me = 4.6 × 2.2 µm ; Qe = 2.1

On overwintered glasses hyphomycete. Conidiomata ? with dark hairs, but I'm not certain that hair belong to this fungi. Hairs thick-walled, septate, 180-335um in length.
Conidia mass is pink or red when dry.
Conidia aseptate, hyaline, multiguttulate, with interesting appendage at one end, measured
*(12) 13.8 - 15.3 (16) × (3.1) 3.13 - 3.5 (3.6) µm
Q = (3.7) 3.8 - 4.6 (5.1) ; N = 23
Me = 14.2 × 3.3 µm ; Qe = 4.3