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| Record Summary | Water-logged apothecia on fallen Beech branch |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 15 November 2009 |
| Associated organism | Fagus sylvatica |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU78 |
| Lat/Lon | 51° 30’ N, 0° 60’ W |
| Vice County | Oxon, VC no: 23 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 15 Nov 2009[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
On hard, decorticate branch c. 4cm diam.
The apothecia were water-logged when found, dark yellow and slightly translucent; as they dried the colour changed to pure bright yellow and opaque.
Apothecium: very shortly stalked, weakly concave to weakly convex.
Hymenium: bright yellow.
Exciple: sulphur to whitish, smooth.
Stipe: dark grey.
Asci:8-spored, narrowly clavate.
Paraphyses:filiform, dichotomously forked near base.
Ascospores:fusiform, 1-septate.
Exciple: chains of swollen cells.
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