My new graduate student, Jennifer McDonald, has bravely taken on the systematics of the cyphelloid species of Resupinatus (formerly known as Stigmatolemma, cf. Mycologia 97:1148-1149, 2005), using both micromorphology and sequence data. In order for her project to succeed, she will need fresh collections and cultures of as many taxa as possible within this group. Basically, if it is cyphelloid, gregarious (often on a felty or wispy subiculum), and gelatinous, with hyaline spores, we would be interested!

Collections or cultures of Resupinatus taxa with tiny, gregarious fruiting bodies having few, reduced lamellae (e.g., Resupinatus kavinii) would also be welcome. If you have any cultures or recent collections of this group, or if you come across these taxa in the field, we would greatly appreciate receiving them. Specimens would be returned after study, but please let us know whether you approve the use of a small portion of the material for DNA extraction for molecular studies. Please email prior to sending any material.

Thanks!
Greg Thorn

Nov 20th, 2007 by Webmaster