George R. L. Greiff

Very happy to introduce a new fungus to the world, Endoantria benetecta, which represents not only a new species but a new genus of ascomycetes. It is special as it has only been found in temperate rainforests in Scotland and Wales. It's a super interesting fungus: here's why 1/

@909fGN @tasukete945_JP A very rich infection and good documentation!

3月20日撮影のBryoscyphus属？ ケゼニゴケに発生していた子嚢菌類 以前から見つけていたポイントが工事の影響でケゼニゴケとともに数が激減してしまったので新たな発生地を探していましたが、無事第二のポイントを見つけられひと安心 よく湿ったスギ林が狙い目かもしれません

会社敷地内の道端に生えていたハルジオンの根にもFREが菌根を形成しています

最近コケに寄生する菌類が一部で流行っていましたが、妻がタスマニアで見つけたこれがずっと気になっています。ミドリコケビョウタケほどは小さくないけどまあまあ小さい。

@ATinyGreenCell That's a really great idea. Were you having issues with contaminants from treated cellophane? We had that problem with moss.

YES. My dumb idea of using sterile filters and/or their parchment slip covers for algae work seems to be workinggg. Gonna try to genegun these and tranafer the filter onto selective media once a recovery period passes. Was looking for untreated cellophane as alterantives too.

Lygodium salicifolium カニクサの仲間。高さ数mになる大型の葉をもち、葉軸がつる状になるフサシダ科のシダ植物。羽片は、皮質で、1回羽状複葉になり、小葉は長さ10㎝、幅は2.5㎝ほどになる。胞子嚢は、小葉の縁に突出し、長さ2～10mm、幅約1.2mmほどになる。

@sagasugayome Lugol's is better for the iodine reaction in this group than Melzer's. Sometimes the pore is inconspicuous. The spores look similar to related species - I have no doubt it is a new species related to B. conocephali.

ここまできてもなお未熟気味だったようでなかなか…🫠 頂孔アミロイドなし、8胞子性かな？ 1、水封100倍 2、水封400倍 3、4メルツァー400倍

@natugom @sagasugayome It is nice. It will certainly be an undescribed species.

@ilichenmoss @sagasugayome Thank you very much! This species is relatively common in Japan. I also think it is related to B. conocephali. However, the ascomata growing on Dumortiera in Japan tend to be whiter, even when they mature.

あとモグ探(@natugom )氏〜！！！！ やりましたよォ！！！！ ゼニゴケにチャワンタケ！！！！

@JournalSysEvo @WileyEcology @wileyinresearch The doi link does not seem to work.

🚨Liverwort lovers...Don't miss this! 🧬Huang et al. reconstruct the evolutionary history of #liverworts using mitochondrial #genome data, providing new insights into their origin AND shedding light on early land #plant #evolution! 🔗doi.org/10.1111/jse.70… @WileyEcology #JSE

What a gorgeous micrograph! A nanobot if I've ever seen one. Would love to zoom in on the anchor protein interface and see those lil feets hook into them.

Phaeoceros laevis (L.) Prosk. #botany #Notothyladaceae #plantsci #Lankester #HornwortBlindnesss #HornwortAwareness #hornwort #biodiversity #nature #science #bryology #bryophytes @IndurotUniovi

@wheatpath Possibly even the rarer species, O. grimmiae, based on the more ellipsoid spores and pigmented, not curved paraphyses.

Small disc-shaped orange fungus #Octospora sp. associated to moss colonising an old wall (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, FR).

オオイタチシダの葉柄の断面 維管束の周りの厚膜、墨みたいに真っ黒👀意外と維管束の大きさってばらつきがあるのね 向軸側の維管束が大きい。羽軸の付け根では既に維管束離れてて、維管束は羽軸よりもっと下の方で分岐するんだな！ ③地際の葉柄〜中軸を2cm刻みで外側から並べた ④は頂羽片

菌根賀新年 今年も懲りずに菌根について呟いていこうと思います 宜しくお願いします

@Daniel_Cahen Sounds cool!

The Bigger Picture: This is app #4 in my experimental biologist's toolkit. It represents a shift from "Generative AI" to "Grounded Reasoning"—using LLMs to make our existing, trusted scientific data more accessible and usable. Feedback welcome!

Just deployed my 4th experimental prototype: BioKey: Cedrus Pilot This project explores a potential future for e-floras: moving away from AI "recall" and toward AI as a reasoning interface for trusted data. Try it here: 🔗 …y-data-1089409921036.us-west1.run.app

@Jamiewa50042387 @BBSbryology Sounds good, Jamie! Definitely worth checking out some cool local spots

@ilichenmoss @BBSbryology Oh yes well worth a treck over G , if your still in the Brist we shall meet up this autumn at somepoint, we can have a good natter about bryos and bryoparasytic's .

A species i have been longing to see , great to see Habrodon perpusillus (Lesser Squirrel-tail Moss) at Sir Johns Hill near Laugharne in Carmarthenshire yesterday, a nationally Scarce epiphyte that grows on mature tree's in well-lit situations @BBSbryology

@Jamiewa50042387 Looks almost like an Octo out of focus in pic 2 :)

Schistostega pennata

Schistostega pennata (Goblin gold) in the mine adit's at Rosebush quarry in Tuesday, a moss that's protonema has reflective lens-like cells that glow like cats eyes , the fronds like leaves in comments @BBSbryology

@Jamiewa50042387 @BBSbryology Very late to it but you got an amazing set of species there!

One of my priority target species on my Cairngorms trip ,Arctic Rustwort (Marsupella arctica) at the Pools of Dee in the Lairig Ghru,one of only two uk sites,both in the Cairngorms and only other site for Europe at Svabard, top bryo indeed @BBSbryology

Intracellular pathogens can form extensive hyphal structures. Here, the pathogen Phytophthora palmivora (magenta) produces invasive hyphae in a living epidermal cell of a Nicotiana root. The plant surrounds the invader by an 'extra-invasive hyphal membrane' (yellow)📸@AlexWGuyon