Pulvinula miltina (Berk.) Rifai, (a discomycete)


19 Oct 2014 at OSGR: SZ19 in South Hants, England

Record Summaryon 1 year old fire site, amongst Funaria hygrometrica
Found asFruitbody
Date19 October 2014
Habitat featurefire site
OS grid refOSGR: SZ19
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 1° 50’ W
Vice CountySouth Hants, VC no: 11
CountryEngland
Voucher19 Oct 2014[D]
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Notes:

Apothecia: 3-7mm diam.

Ascospores: spherical, hyaline, smooth,14-16µm diam., with central mass of small oil drops.

Asci: 8-spored, apex not blued in Melzer’s Iodine, upto 250µm long, but mostly smaller.

Paraphyses: 2µm diam, slightly wider at the tips, curved at the tips, mostly unbranched, with granular orange contents which turn green in Melzer’s Iodine,

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