Chromocyphella muscicola (Fr.) Donk, (moss ear)


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

Record Summaryon mixed mosses and liverworts on Beech trunk
Found asFruitbody
Date28 October 2013
OS grid refOSGR: SU22
Lat/Lon50° 60’ N, 1° 40’ W
Vice CountySouth Wilts, VC no: 8
CountryEngland
Voucher28 Oct 2013[D]
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Notes:

Large circular white patches of dead moss and Metzgeria furcata, with basidiomes on central part.

Spores: brown, globose, slightly rough and scrophulous, 7-8µm diam.

The host bryophyte cover had largely recovered by March 2017, but the previous sheets of Metzgeria had been replaced by fine-leaved mosses.

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