INDEX  TO  90 ASCOMYCOTA (Sac Fungi and Anamorphs)

*** = pretty good   **** = best of bunch

        A-C           D-M          N-S           T-Z

• Aleuria aurantia
• Alternaria alternata        ****  stand of conidiophores with chains of conidia
• Alternaria alternata # 2                   conidia
• Alternaria alternata #3                    from Niall Hamilton, Aukland NZ      
• Arthrobotrys brochopaga ***          giant constricting rings!                 
• Arthrobotrys conoides      ****  microscopic forest - rarely photographed
• Arthrobotrys flagrans       ***        intercalary chlamydospores
• Arthrobotrys oligospora   ***        nematode captured by adhesive nets
• Arthrobotrys  oligospora                  hyphal anastomosis
• Arthrobotrys oligospora  ***         hyphal network
• Arthrobotrys anchonia    ****    SEM of nematode caught by constricting rings
• Ascobolus  sp                                    fruitbody (apothecium) with asci and ascospores
• Ascobolus  sp                    ***        showing young and old asci
• Ascobolus                                          one more time!
• Ascobolus                                         cluster of asci
• Ascocoryne sarcoides
• Ascocoryne sarcoides #2
• Aspergillus clavatus        
• Aspergllus flavus                           colony on agar
• Aspergillus fumigatus      ***        conidiophore, vesicle, conidiogenous cells (phialides)
• Aspergillus wentii            ***        perhaps the best spore producing design in the Hyphomycetes
• Aspergillus wentii             ***          biseriate conidiogenous cells
• Aspergillus wentii                           mop heads
• Beauveria bassiana       ****    showing conidiophores and conidia of insect parasite
• Beauveria - on hawkmoth  ***        even a parasite can be beautiful.
• Beauveria - on chinch bug
• Beauveria -  on cicada
• Botrytis cinerea                ***        'Grey Mould' attacking ripe strawberry fruits.
• Bulgaria inquinans           ****       Photo: Brian Shelton   One of the best on the web
• Calocybe fulgens
• Chaetomium sp.             ***       shows coiled setae
• Chlorencoelia versiformis
• Chlorociboria aeruginascens *** stains wood a beautiful blue-green
• Cladosporium sphaerospermum ****
• Cordyceps capitata
• Cordyceps militaris        ***
• Cordyceps militaris                        close up of  head region (stroma)  showing embedded perithecia
• Curvularia lunata                               grass parasite, Dematiaceous Hyphomycete
• Daldinia concentrica
• Dasyscyphus virgineus ***          small things are hard to photograph!
• Entomosporium mespili                 setulate conidia from Hawthorn leaves
• Erysiphe graminis  ***                   haustoria   inside cells of grass leaf
• Eurotium chevalieri  ***              growing on leather camera case in basement. Allergies?
• Galiella rufa
• Geoglossum difforme
• Gyromitra esculenta
• Gyromitra infula
• Helvella coria
• Helvella crispa              ***
• Helvella lacunosa
• Helvella macropus 
• Hymenoscyphus fructigenus
• Hymneoscyphus fructigenus             on old acorn cups
• Hymenoscyphus subcarneus
• Hyphae
• Hyphal anastomosis         ****    one of  the MOST IMPORTANT phenomena in fungi
• Hypomyces chrysospermus              infected mushroom
• Hypomyces chrysospermus***       conidia
• Hypomyces lactifluorum
• Hypomyces lactifluorum                  ascospores
• Hypomyces luteovirens
• Hypoxylon fragiforme
• Lachnellula agassizii
• Leotia lubrica
• Leotia viscosa              ***          'Green Capped Jelly Baby'
• Microglossum rufum     ****       better than the one in my book!.
• Morchella elata
• Morchella esculenta
• Mycogone cervinus                             attacking  Helvella lacunosa
• Mycogone perniciosa                          conidia
• Nectria cinnabarina
• Neobulgaria pura
• Neolecta irregularis
• Otidea auricula
• Otidea onotica
• Pachyella clypeata
• Penicillium cyclopium                   dilution plate.
• Penicillium digitatum
• Penicillium italicum
• Penicillium- micrograph   ***            good micrograph of conidiophores etc
• Penicillium   - hyphae      ***             hyphae scaled against human hair   
• Peziza cerea
• Peziza praetervisa
• Pestalotia  sp.                                       setulate conidia
• Ptychoverpa bohemica   ***
• Rhytisma punctatum
• Saccharomyces cereviseae                  unicells
• Saccharomyces cereviseae                  colonies of yeasts growing on pizza.
• Saccobolus glaber          ***               entire apothecium
• Saccobolus glaber                                asci and ascospores
• Sarcoscypha occidentalis
• Sarcoscypha austriaca
• Sclerotinia sclerotiorum                       apothecia  from sclerotium
• Scutellinia erinacea        ***             the other 'Eyelash Fungus'. Common in Ontario
• Sepedonium chrysospermum               conidal state (anamorph) of Hypomyces chrysospermus
• Sordaria fimicola                                 hyphae
• Sordaria fimicola                                 perithecium with phototropic neck
• Sordaria fimicola                                  ascospores with halo
• Sordaria fimicola ***                        perithecial squash
• Sowerbyella rhenana        ****
• Spathulariopsis velutipes ***
• Taphrina deformans        ***          symptoms on peach leaf  
• Tetracoccosporium paxianum            Dematiaceous  Hyphomycete
• Trichoglossum hirsutum
• Tubercularia cinnabarina
• Uncinula necator             ****     causes 'Powdery Mildew of Grapes'
• Urnula craterium
• Verticillium sp #1   ***                     on nematode (Deuteromycota)
• Verticillium sp #2                               on nematode
• Vibrissea truncorum       ****
• Volutella ciliata               ***         tiny hyphomycete fruiting from submerged fir leaf
• Xylaria hypoxylon           ***           'Candle Snuff' - widespread but fruits best in the west
• Xylaria polymorpha