Chlorociboria aeruginascens
Mycologia 49(6): 858. 1957.
Photo: These are very small!
Common Name: none
Synonym: Chlorosplenium aeruginascens (Nyl.) P. Karst.
Fruiting bodies aerugineus-green (blue-green); apotheca cup to discoid shaped, 3-10mm broad at maturity; stipitate to sub-stipitate with the stipe typically laterally attached.
Spores fusiform, 5-9 x 1.5-2 µm, smooth. Spore print not seen.
Scattered to gregarious on wood; the wood usually stained blue-green by the mycelium of the fungus.
Much too small to be considered!
Chlorociboria aeruginascens can easily be confused with its close relative, Chlorociboria aeruginosa. Chlorociboria aeruginosa tends to be a little smaller and have a centrally attached stipe rather than a laterally attached stipe. The only consistantly reliable differentiation is the larger spores of Chlorociboria aeruginosa: 9-15 X 1.4-2.8 µm versus 5-8 X 0.7-2.8 µm for Chlorociboria aeruginascens.
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— closeup, the larger sporocarp is about 7 mm broad
— these were from North Carolina
— these were from North Carolina
— showing the blue-green stained wood
— the fungus stains the wood blue-green
