Sheep hair ball fungus

Sheep hair ball fungus
	Sheep hair ball fungus ( Lasiosphaeria ovina on dead wood)
Systematics
Class :	Sordariomycetes
Subclass :	Sordariomycetidae
Order :	Sordariales
Family :	Lasiosphaeriaceae
Genre :	Lasiosphaeria
Type :	Sheep hair ball fungus
Scientific name
	Lasiosphaeria ovina
	( Pers. ) Ces. & De Not.

The sheep hair ball mushroom ( Lasiosphaeria ovina ) is a fungal art from the family of lasiosphaeriaceae .

features

Macroscopic features

As a fruiting body , the sheep hair ball fungus forms spherical, single 0.5 to 1 cm large perithecia that are hairy with white tomentose hair. The black mouth ( osteolum ) at the top protrudes slightly. Old specimens can be black due to the felt felt. The consistency is hard and firm. The white-haired felt makes the species easily recognizable within the genus despite its small size, since all other species are hairless and therefore black.

Microscopic features

The hyaline to yellowish colored spores are cylindrical and worm-like curved or only slightly angled at one end. They are smooth, often unseptate and 26 to 54 × 3.5 to 5 μm in size. The asci have a cylindrical, club-like stalk and are 160 to 200 × 15 to 22 μm in size. The paraphyses are hair-shaped and septate.

Ecology and diffusion

The sheep hairball fungus lives saprobically on rotten hardwood. It appears mainly in spring and is not uncommon. It occurs in Europe from England to Russia while in North America the range extends from Canada to Costa Rica. The species is also found on the Philippen.

The sheep hairball fungus is sometimes parasitized by Krieglsteinera lasiosphaeriae .

literature

E. Gerhardt: Mushrooms. Verlag BLV, Munich 2006, p. 535, ISBN 978-3-8354-0053-5

Individual evidence

↑ Miller, AN; Huhndorf, SM 2004. Using phylogenetic species recognition to delimit species boundaries within Lasiosphaeria. Mycologia. 96 (5): 1106-1127 accessed on mycobank on October 3, 2014 .
↑ German Josef Krieglsteiner (Ed.): Die Großpilze Baden-Württemberg . Volume 1: General Part. Stand mushrooms: jelly, bark, prick and pore mushrooms. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3528-0 .

Web links

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[1] Miller, AN; Huhndorf, SM 2004. Using phylogenetic species recognition to delimit species boundaries within Lasiosphaeria. Mycologia. 96 (5): 1106-1127 accessed on mycobank on October 3, 2014 .

[2] German Josef Krieglsteiner (Ed.): Die Großpilze Baden-Württemberg . Volume 1: General Part. Stand mushrooms: jelly, bark, prick and pore mushrooms. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3528-0 .