109/3075
Home /

tiny Moelleriella fruiting bodies seen on a leaf in Chivor

ThumbnailsPreviousNext
Photo sizes slideshowShow file metadata
Moelleriella Chivor Ms.jpg Calvatia cyathiformis, the purple-spored puffball is a big and widely distributed puffballThumbnailsAscopolyporus sp. (Corducipitataceae) growing in Chivor above Sta Maria, Boyaca, ColombiaCalvatia cyathiformis, the purple-spored puffball is a big and widely distributed puffballThumbnailsAscopolyporus sp. (Corducipitataceae) growing in Chivor above Sta Maria, Boyaca, ColombiaCalvatia cyathiformis, the purple-spored puffball is a big and widely distributed puffballThumbnailsAscopolyporus sp. (Corducipitataceae) growing in Chivor above Sta Maria, Boyaca, ColombiaCalvatia cyathiformis, the purple-spored puffball is a big and widely distributed puffballThumbnailsAscopolyporus sp. (Corducipitataceae) growing in Chivor above Sta Maria, Boyaca, ColombiaCalvatia cyathiformis, the purple-spored puffball is a big and widely distributed puffballThumbnailsAscopolyporus sp. (Corducipitataceae) growing in Chivor above Sta Maria, Boyaca, Colombia

Moelleriella is a genus of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae family (most famous for ergot - Claviceps purpurea) that infect and kill aphids. When checking leaves closely in the rainy season, Moeleriella species are everywhere, but due to their tiny size, most people never see this fungus.