Peat cuticle fungus
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| Athelia turficola | ||||||||||||
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The Torfhäutchenpilz ( Athelia turficola ) is a stand mushroom art from the family of the tissue skin relatives (Atheliaceae). It forms resupinate, whitish and membrane-like fruiting bodies on peat , mulch and other garden substrates. The distribution of the species includes the northwest of Germany. Their anamorphic is known under the name Burgoa turficola .
features
Macroscopic features
The peat membrane fungus, like all types of tissue membranes ( Athelia ), forms thin fruiting bodies with a smooth hymenium and thinning edges. They are white when young, later cream-colored and can be easily removed from the substrate.
Microscopic features
the peat membrane fungus has a monomitic hyphae structure typical for tissue skins , that is, it only has generative hyphae that serve the growth of the fruiting body. The hyphae are hyaline and thin to slightly thick-walled. They often have buckles and are 3–5 µm wide. The species does not have cystidia . Their basidia are approximately cylindrical to club-shaped and 20-25 × 7-9 µm in size. They are always seated at the base. They have four, rarely two, sterigmata . The spores of the fungus are rounded, spherical, 5–6 × 4–6 µm in size, smooth and thin-walled and hyaline.
distribution
The known distribution of the peat skin fungus is limited to the federal states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia to the north-west of Germany .
ecology
The peat cuticle fungus is a saprobiont that colonizes garden substrates such as peat or, more rarely, bark mulch .
literature
- GB Schlechte and P. Hoffmann: The peat skin fungus, Athelia turficola sp. nov. (Secondary crop form: Burgoa turficola anam. Nov.), A new species on horticultural growing media. In: Gartenbauwissenschaft 65 (4), 2000. pp. 144–146.