Wasn’t able to get a decent photo of the spores. On average they measured 46 x 2um and even in the eyepieces it was hard to make out any details. I did get a photo of some asci with the spores coiled up inside of them. You can actually see a free floating spore in this photo, the pineneedle shaped thing to the lower left of the scale bar, upper right of the central ascus.
I’ve never seen asci with anything but ovoid spores, the stringy ones look super cool!
Here are the spores, I just couldn’t manage a decent photo of them with my cheap microscope.
As a fellow cheap microscope owner, I feel ya. Thanks for sharing anyway.
I have similarly bad photos of spores from a ‘Cudonia’ spp. I found which are also thin and hard to see (Cudonia is likely going to be combined with Spathularia because they’re so close genetically).
