Record Summary | erumpent apothecia on dead pine cone scale under pines |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 16 December 2006 |
Associated organism | Pinus sylvestris |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 16 Dec 2006[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Apothecia: hysteroid, erumpent, soft when wet and very pale grey inside thin black valves.
Asci: with 8 long, narrow, cylindric spores, unstained in Melzer’s Iodine.
Ascospores: long, cylindric, narrow, flexuous, aseptate, ends rounded, 150/2.5µm, with gelatinous coat 5µm diam.
Paraphyses cylidric, hyaline, with curved clavate tips, unstained in Melzer’s Iodine.
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