No. 84 - A find in the Austrian Alps distraction occurring submontane to montane species in the Alps and the Alpenvor-country. Otherwise very rare.
except in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany there are only rare one finds in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, and some of the new federal states. In Europe the species is strictly tied to Salixarten (willow).
Cytidia salicina is only by their color creates a very striking bark fungus, like in small groups of dead branches and twigs colonized by Salixarten suspect and often more than one ascomycete fungus can be a bark.
single fruit-body are attached mostly between 5 and 30 mm large, rounded, top-shaped and dotted on the substrate. You can grow together into larger areas. The surface is clearly wet wrinkled and the edges bent up slightly. In the fresh slices are soft and elastic; dried hard and brittle. In the dried state disappears and the bright blood-red color and gives way to a rather dull purple-brown, dark red. However, FK and fresh in color are highly variable and it can also be dark red to reddish brown colors dominate.
microscopy is the Willow mushroom slice through large, up to 18μ long, sausage-shaped spores and densely interwoven astförmige Dendrohyphidien well determined.
likelihood of confusion is really only in darker specimens, one could consider the same substrate at the growing Exidia recissa (Weidendrüsling) or various Ascomycetes.
Illustrated fruiting bodies were photographed in September 2010 in the Grand valley.
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