Irish lichens
Lichenicolous fungi
Lichenicolous fungi
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Order: Ostropales Family: Odontotremataceae
Species: Skyttea nitschkei Photos: Glengarriff woods, Cork, SW Ireland. Identified by Andy Acton Clusters of dark brown, urceolate ascomata, usually turning the surrounding host thallus reddish-brown. The apothecia rim has smooth, straight hairs around the central pore and contains two main pigments. Dark reddish pigment most abundant in upper exciple below hairs, K+ bright aeruginose green, lower part exciple K+ purple. Asci 8-spored, spores simple, 8-13 x 2-3(-4) µm Only found on the thallus of Thelotrema lepadinum. Scattered records in Ireland, most abundant in old oceanic woodlands. Skyttea radiatilis on Loxospora elatina, S. megalosporae on Megalospora tuberculosa and S. pyrenulae on Pyrenula spp. |
Skyttea nitschkei March 2010