Kretzschmaria deusta (Hoffm.) P. M. D. Martin 1970

Description: Brittle Cinder - Kretzschmaria deusta. Date: 6 May 2017, 18:02. Source: Brittle Cinder - Kretzschmaria deusta. Author: Björn S... Camera location51° 25′ 18.62″ N, 6° 48′ 08.32″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 51.421838; 6.802311.

Description: English: Brittle Cinder (Kretzschmaria deusta). Date: 22 January 2022. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/176783779. Author: Arthur Gelling. Camera location51° 26′ 02.75″ N, 0° 22′ 14.88″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 51.434097; -0.370800. : This media file is part of an observation on iNaturalist:inaturalist.org/observations/105371987This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. : This image was originally posted to iNaturalist by artgelling at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/176783779. It was reviewed on 18 February 2022 by INaturalistReviewBot and found to be published under the terms of the Cc-by-4.0 license. Reason: sha1.

Description: Brittle Cinder - Kretzschmaria deusta. Date: 1 May 2017, 11:48. Source: Brittle Cinder - Kretzschmaria deusta. Author: Björn S... Camera location51° 32′ 33.02″ N, 6° 54′ 05.66″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 51.542505; 6.901572.

Longitude (deg): -0.1. Latitude (deg): 50.8. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 50' N. Vice county name: East Sussex. Vice county no.: 14. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: On stump. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

Longitude (deg): -0.1. Latitude (deg): 50.8. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 50' N. Vice county name: East Sussex. Vice county no.: 14. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: On stump. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: highly magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: highly magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: highly magnified. Photographic equipment used: Pixera Pro tethered low-resolution digital camera with Meiji microscope using CS adaptor and x.7 projection eye-piece.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: highly magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Unilink adaptor on Meiji microscope.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: North Wilts. Vice county no.: 7. Country: England. Stage: Fruitbody. Associated species: Fagus sylvatica. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "on large, old, dead Beech stump". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: highly magnified. Photographic equipment used: Pixera Pro tethered low-resolution digital camera with Meiji microscope using CS adaptor and x.7 projection eye-piece.

Kretzschmaria deusta (Hoffm.) Martin, syn.: Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind, Hypoxylon deustumBrittle cinder, DE: BrandkrustenpilzSlo.: rnea ogankaDat.: Feb. 27. 2016Lat.: 46.33499 Long.: 13.69911Code: Bot_934/2016_IMG9669Picture file names: from Kretzschmaria-deusta_raw_10 to Kretzschmaria-deusta_raw_17.Habitat: light, mixed woodland Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica dominant; slightly inclined mountain slope, south aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; half shade, quite humid place; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6 - 8 deg C, elevation 715 m (2.350 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: mostly debarked places of a heavily decayed, still standing trunk of Fagus sylvatica.Place: Vrsnik valley, below 'Na skali' settlement, above Pod Vriem place, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comments: This is a quite a common fungus in Upper Posoje region, not really among the most beautiful, but still interesting. This species is much brighter when young, becoming black as charcoal when old. Growing on several places of a still standing trunk of large Fagus sylvatica. Ascomata confluent into patches up to 25 x 10 cm, with bumps from 3 to 10(15) mm in diameter, 2 to 6(10) mm thick, perithecia about 1 mm in diameter; very brittle, so it can't be cut even not with a sharp surgical knife without breaking it into pieces; no smell; SP none, spores found within crashed perithecia; these were rather old sporocarps.Spores smooth, dark, seems much flattened on one side (which probably explains large variability of their measured width compared to stable length), some with small drops. Dimensions: 28.3 [30.3 ; 31.2] 33.1 x 8.8 [9.9 ; 10.5] 11.6 microns; Q = 2.5 [2.9 ; 3.1] 3.5; N = 30; C = 95%; Me = 30.7 x 10.2 microns; Qe = 3. Olympus CH20, NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400 x; in water. AmScope MA500 digital camera.Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJFRef.:(1) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 377. (2) M. Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 336. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.1., Verlag Mykologia (1984), p 272.

Kretzschmaria deusta (Hoffm.) Martin, syn.: Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind, Hypoxylon deustumBrittle cinder, DE: BrandkrustenpilzSlo.: rnea ogankaDat.: Feb. 27. 2016Lat.: 46.33499 Long.: 13.69911Code: Bot_934/2016_IMG9669Picture file names: from Kretzschmaria-deusta_raw_10 to Kretzschmaria-deusta_raw_17.Habitat: light, mixed woodland Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica dominant; slightly inclined mountain slope, south aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; half shade, quite humid place; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6 - 8 deg C, elevation 715 m (2.350 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: mostly debarked places of a heavily decayed, still standing trunk of Fagus sylvatica.Place: Vrsnik valley, below 'Na skali' settlement, above Pod Vriem place, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comments: This is a quite a common fungus in Upper Posoje region, not really among the most beautiful, but still interesting. This species is much brighter when young, becoming black as charcoal when old. Growing on several places of a still standing trunk of large Fagus sylvatica. Ascomata confluent into patches up to 25 x 10 cm, with bumps from 3 to 10(15) mm in diameter, 2 to 6(10) mm thick, perithecia about 1 mm in diameter; very brittle, so it can't be cut even not with a sharp surgical knife without breaking it into pieces; no smell; SP none, spores found within crashed perithecia; these were rather old sporocarps.Spores smooth, dark, seems much flattened on one side (which probably explains large variability of their measured width compared to stable length), some with small drops. Dimensions: 28.3 [30.3 ; 31.2] 33.1 x 8.8 [9.9 ; 10.5] 11.6 microns; Q = 2.5 [2.9 ; 3.1] 3.5; N = 30; C = 95%; Me = 30.7 x 10.2 microns; Qe = 3. Olympus CH20, NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400 x; in water. AmScope MA500 digital camera.Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJFRef.:(1) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 377. (2) M. Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 336. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.1., Verlag Mykologia (1984), p 272.

Kretzschmaria deusta (Hoffm.) Martin, syn.: Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind, Hypoxylon deustumBrittle cinder, DE: BrandkrustenpilzSlo.: rnea ogankaDat.: Feb. 27. 2016Lat.: 46.33499 Long.: 13.69911Code: Bot_934/2016_IMG9669Picture file names: from Kretzschmaria-deusta_raw_10 to Kretzschmaria-deusta_raw_17.Habitat: light, mixed woodland Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica dominant; slightly inclined mountain slope, south aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; half shade, quite humid place; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6 - 8 deg C, elevation 715 m (2.350 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: mostly debarked places of a heavily decayed, still standing trunk of Fagus sylvatica.Place: Vrsnik valley, below 'Na skali' settlement, above Pod Vriem place, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comments: This is a quite a common fungus in Upper Posoje region, not really among the most beautiful, but still interesting. This species is much brighter when young, becoming black as charcoal when old. Growing on several places of a still standing trunk of large Fagus sylvatica. Ascomata confluent into patches up to 25 x 10 cm, with bumps from 3 to 10(15) mm in diameter, 2 to 6(10) mm thick, perithecia about 1 mm in diameter; very brittle, so it can't be cut even not with a sharp surgical knife without breaking it into pieces; no smell; SP none, spores found within crashed perithecia; these were rather old sporocarps.Spores smooth, dark, seems much flattened on one side (which probably explains large variability of their measured width compared to stable length), some with small drops. Dimensions: 28.3 [30.3 ; 31.2] 33.1 x 8.8 [9.9 ; 10.5] 11.6 microns; Q = 2.5 [2.9 ; 3.1] 3.5; N = 30; C = 95%; Me = 30.7 x 10.2 microns; Qe = 3. Olympus CH20, NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400 x; in water. AmScope MA500 digital camera.Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJFRef.:(1) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 377. (2) M. Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 336. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.1., Verlag Mykologia (1984), p 272.