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 (fruiting bodies) which usually turn 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 of exciple K+ purple. Asci are 8-spored, the 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 nitschkei March 2010