Irish lichens
Lichenicolous fungi
Lichenicolous fungi
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Order: Ostropales Family: Odontotremataceae
Species: Skyttea sp. Photos: Glengarriff woods, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Identified by Andy Acton Skyttea: Urceolate ascomata, narrow-pored when young and bordered by usually straight, smooth hairs. The exciple is usually greenish or brownish, rarely reddish. The ascospores are generally hyaline, non-septate. Periphyses are absent, the paraphyses usually un-branched. Most known species seem to cause no visible damage to the host lichen. Skyttea radiatilis is found on on Loxospora elatina, Skyttea nitschkei on Thelotrema lepadium and Skyttea megalosporae on Megalospora tuberculosa |
Skyttea sp. March 2010