Record Summary | on moss-covered fallen Oak log |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 14 October 1998 |
Associated organism | Quercus |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU30 |
Lat/Lon | 50° 50’ N, 1° 30’ W |
Vice County | South Hants, VC no: 11 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 14 Oct 1998[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Gills: quite tough.
Stipe: rooting.
Smell: slightly fruity on cutting.
Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Spores: spherical, 6-7µm diam (excluding apiculus).
Basidia: 4-spored.
Pleurocystidia: abundant, fusiform.
Cheilocystidia: lageniform.
Caulocystidia: vermiform to lageniform with dark contents, clamped at base.
Pileicystidia: hyaline, cylindric-capitate, elbowed, clamped, on a radially filamentous cuticle c. 6µm diam.
A second log nearby had similar fruitbodies, but with caps splitting and turned up towards margin.
The following literature was used to identify this find:
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