Kay,
You may have a Coelomycete. Try putting the fungus on carnation leaf
agar(Nelson's Fusarium book), after these hard structures appear on the
inoculated leaves, take out a block of the agar and leaf, take it to
your histopath section, have them put it into a block, section it, and
stain it with PAS. Perhaps then you can see the internal structure of
these fruiting bodies. I know next to nothing about Coelomycetes, but
recently had one from a BAL also. I think it may have been a
Phomopsis. I have Sutton's book ordered through interlibrary loan to
see if it will help us. If the isolate is important, you may have to
send it onto a reference laboratory e.g. Dr. Rinaldi's lab in San
Antonio. There are other good ones, also. Let us know how your id
comes out.
Pat Kammeyer
pkamm at theramp.net
