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Quaternaria quaternata
Quaternaria quaternata
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 1118 0441 (2018-11-12)

Copyright © 2018 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Oct 3, 2018
  • latitude 46.36088   longitude 13.70242     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, Na melu place near Trenta 2b cottage, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)
  • notes   Slo.: ? - syn.: Eutypella quaternata (Pers.) Rappaz - Habitat: Wood edge, Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies, Fraxinus ornus and Ostrya carpinifolia dominant trees; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, colluvial, skeletal ground; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 610 m (2.000 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: dead branches of Fagus sylvatica still attached to the tree; branch diameter 9-14 mm. - Comments: Quaternaria quaternata is a common fungus on dead Fagus branches. This is teleomorph form of anamorph Libertella faginea. In its sexual reproductive stage, it produces spores in fruiting bodies immerged in the barky of the tree – in blackish perithecia. A few of them have a common stroma. - Spores smooth, allantoid. Dimensions: (11,3) 11,7 - 15,5 (16,6) × (2,8) 3,4 - 4,3 (4,7) µm, Q = (2,7) 3,2 - 4; N = 30; Me = 13,6 × 3,8 µm; Qe = 3,6; Asci 140 -210/8-10 microns, some with very long 'tail'; Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil (asci tips); NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400x (spores, asci), in water, dry material. Novex, Zoom Stereo RZ_Range, Holland (stroma, perithecia), dry material. AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Herbarium: Mycotheca and Herbarium of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Index Herbariorum acronym LJF - Ref.: (1) https://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r159161.htm?7 (accessed Nov. 2.2018) (2) https://www.mycoquebec.org/bas.php?trie=E&l=l&nom=Eutypella%20quaternata%20/%20Eutypelle%20quaternaire&tag=Eutypella%20quaternata&gro=90 (accessed Nov. 5.2018) (3) https://www.123pilze.de/DreamHC/Download/Quaternaria.htm (accessed Nov. 5.2018) (4) http://www.ascofrance.com/recolte/4104/sordariomycetes-xylariales-diatrypaceae-quaternaria-quaternata (accessed Nov. 8.2018) (5) http://www.pilzflora-ehingen.de/pilzflora/arthtml/equaternata.php (accessed Nov. 8.2018)
  • camera   Nikon D700 / Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_1160/2018_DSC3578
  • photo category: Fungi - fungi

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