Record Summary | towards base of old damp fallen Beech log |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 5 October 2002 |
Associated organism | Fagus sylvatica |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU57 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 30’ N, 1° 10’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 5 Oct 2002[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Pale pinkish buff coating with thick projecting cystidia (clear visible under hand lens).
Hymenium a soft, closed, lumpy surface; margin abrupt and often showing paler underlying hyphae; some loose cobwebby mycelium adjacent.
Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Spores: ellipsoid, hyaline, smooth, 8-13/5µm, 8-12/4-5µm.
Basidia: 4-spored, 35/µm, sterigmata 6.5µm long.
Cystidia: 190/10-18µm, cylindric or clamped (when ≤280/≤38µm), septate, clamped or not, often encrusted.
The following literature was used to identify this find:
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