Nettle Pox

Nettle Pox - Calloria tremelloides

Alternative names
Calloria neglecta
Callorina fusarioides
Cylindrocolla urticae (asexual stage)
Description

The sexual stage is a very small (< 1mm) orange disc or lens shaped fungus with a paler margin, found in clusters on dead nettle stems.    The asexual stage is more often recorded, and precedes the sexual stage.  This asexual stage is poorly defined and cushion-shaped, ofen coalescing, and is a darker orange.  It produces chains of cylindrical conidia.

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph on host plant; note substrate and associated plant species; note whether you are recording sexual or asexual stage, or both

Habitat

Dead stems of nettle

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