Pezicula cinnamomea (DC.) Sacc., (a discomycete)


28 Oct 2013 at OSGR: SU22 in South Wilts, England

Record Summaryon bark on dead, fallen, cut hard Beech log section, in wood pile
Found asFruitbody
Date28 October 2013
Associated organismFagus sylvatica
OS grid refOSGR: SU22
Lat/Lon50° 60’ N, 1° 40’ W
Vice CountySouth Wilts, VC no: 8
CountryEngland
Voucher28 Oct 2013[C]
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Notes:

Apothecia: smooth, in tight linear clusters and often distorted, hymenium with loose granular matter strongly staining dark brown to black in Melzer’s Iodine.

Flesh: brownish (dark honey coloured)

Asci: 8-spored, I-, 100-120µm long.

Paraphyses: hyaline, narrow, cylindric, once or twice forked, apices strongly swollen.

Ascospores: hyaline, smooth, without oil-drops, 21-27/8-11µm, elliptic to fusiform, slightly curved, mostly aseptate in ascus, but becoming up to 3 septate.

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