mag. 400x
Long, juggling club-shaped cells, with siliceous scales, on stalks directed toward the colony center. Two flagella per cell, one long one short. This taxon has been previously observed in this general location, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=494360&user_id=mnold1&verifiable=any.
Video shows a slowly rotating colony, https://youtu.be/nJn1INXd_co.
Ref. https://www.keweenawalgae.mtu.edu/gallery_pages/synurophyceans.htm
Female accompanied by two males.
On white spruce
On white spruce
Still unsure if it’s just orange rock posy?
This observation for the white kind with a black outline and little lobes.
On decorticated cedar - Thuja occidentalis tiny black cup fungi. Apothecium superficial and sessile.
Asci 8-spored, IKI+.
Ascospores brown, with 1-septum, measured
(10.2) 11.5 - 12.4 (12.7) × (5.2) 5.3 - 6.2 (6.5) µm
Q = (1.8) 1.9 - 2.2 (2.4) ; N = 9
Me = 12 × 5.8 µm ; Qe = 2.1
On dead, corticated Jack Pine branches, tiny, black cup fungi. Apothecia sessile.
Asci with many globose spores, IKI+.
Ascospores about 2um in diameter.