Tulostoma brumale Pers., (winter stalkball, winter stalk puffball)


25 Oct 2006 at OSGR: SS49 in Glam, Wales

Record Summaryin sand dunes
Found asFruitbody
Date25 October 2006
OS grid refOSGR: SS49
Lat/Lon51° 40’ N, 4° 10’ W
Vice CountyGlam, VC no: 41
CountryWales
Voucher25 Oct 2006[A]
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Notes:

Spores: globose, 4-5µm diam, with short blunt pedicel, roughly warty with isolated warts, brown under microscope.

Paracapillitium: cylindric, sparsely branched, 3-5µm, solid when thin, very thick-walled (1.5µm) when 4-5µm diam, septate and expanding at septa to 8µm diam., with plate-like adhesions.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

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