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Lachnum pygmaeum (Fr.) Bres., 1903 (a discomycete)

Suggested Literature

Lachnum pygmaeum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)

ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)

HYALOSCYPHACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Lachnum pygmaeum is associated with:

apothecium	Acer - maples (Aceraceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen twig	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Acer - maples (Aceraceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen branch	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Betula - birches (Betulaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen twig	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Betula - birches (Betulaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen branch	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Ulex - gorses (Fabaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on dead, esp. burnt and partly buried in soil or matted grass branch	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium	Ulex - gorses (Fabaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on dead, esp. burnt and partly buried in soil or matted grass root	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
apothecium	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen twig	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen branch	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen twig	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen branch	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Salix - willows (Salicaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen twig	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Salix - willows (Salicaceae)	apothecium is saprobic on fallen branch	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Broadleaved trees and shrubs	apothecium is saprobic on fallen branch	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]
apothecium	Broadleaved trees and shrubs	apothecium is saprobic on fallen twig	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [lying in grass or partly buried in soil]

Associated with Lachnum pygmaeum:

apothecium

apothecium is parasitised by colony of Calcarisporium anamorph

Calcarisporium arbuscula - an anamorphic fungus

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Lachnum pygmaeum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook