Nettle Pox
Nettle Pox - Calloria tremelloides
Alternative names
Calloria neglecta
Callorina fusarioides
Cylindrocolla urticae (asexual stage)
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.
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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