Dear Elena,

I have analysed mycorrhiza of one (dry grassland) orchid genus (Epipactis spp.) in Slovenia - (simply amplification of fungal DNA from roots) but did not amplify any geoglossoid fungi in my sample. I know it is a negative reult but hope to help anyway.

Tine

Dear Tine,

Thank you for the answer. Here we have data based on fungal DNA from Pyrola roots and rhizomes too, and it is rather unusual to meet typical for meadows or forests at former pasture places species in samples from coniferous forest.

With best regards,

Elena

Hi Elena

You can this paper "Geoglossoid fungi in Slovakia II. Trichoglossum octopartitum, a new species for the country"

or this "Geoglossum simile of North America and Europe: distribution

of a widespread earth tongue species and designation of an epitype"

Maybe help you, Or you can contact with author's

Good Luck

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Dear Laith,

Thank you for the answer and papers.

with best regards,

Elena

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Hi Elena

You are welcome

HI, Elena

We published a small paper on Thuemenidium (http://www.mycologia.org/content/102/5/1089.full), and observed shared habitat between the fungus and crawberry. We have not collected any molecular evidence for any associations between earth tongues and other plants. However, I did observed tiny apothecia of Trichoglossum associated with mosses' rhizomes. Below was what we addressed about earth tongue ecology in that paper, hope this is helpful for your research.

"...The ecology of earth tongue fungi in Geoglossum, Trichoglossum, Microglossum and Thuemenidium was once considered homogenous, not only because all were found commonly in more or less damp lawns or pastureland (Nannfeldt 1942) but also because the ecology of these fungi, indeed of most Leotiomycetes, has been both understudied and overlooked for a long time. Although there is no available hard evidence many species of Geoglossum and Trichoglossum are believed to be associated in some way with bryophytes. The ecology of T. arenarium is unique because it grows in sand dunes near the seacoast. Of note it often grows with Clavaria argillacea (Ohenoja 1995, 2000) and has been confirmed to form mycorrhizae with the black crowberry Empetrum nigrum (Nitare 1982). In contrast T. atropurpureum usually is collected from acidic grasslands where diverse mosses are common. So far no relationships between T. atropurpureum and specific mosses have been proposed. Lumbsch and Huhndorf kept T. arenarium in Geoglossum following Nitrare (1982) and assigned only T. atropurpureum to Microglossum on the basis of molecular evidence (http://www8.umu.se/myconet)."