Order: Ostropales       Family: Gomphillaceae Species: Gomphillus calycioides Growth type crustose. Photos: Over moss on Oak. Glengarriff, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Thin greenish-grey or +/- colourless thallus with scattered blackish-brown apothecia that appear to have short, +/- furrowed stalks. Apothecia are either single or 2-6 per stalk. Asci are very long and narrow, 280-350 x 7-10 µm, 8-spored. Multi-septate (usually 25-65 -septate), colourless, threadlike spores, 160-200 x 1.5-2 µm. Micro photos below. Occurs overgrowing moss and liverworts on mossy rocks or tree trunks in sheltered, humid locations but occasionally found on soil. Most frequent in western Ireland. Chemical reactions negative.

Microscope photographs







Gomphillus calycioides. November 2009