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| Record Summary | on dead, fallen oak twig |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 1 November 2014 |
| Associated organism | Quercus |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU22 |
| Lat/Lon | 50° 60’ N, 1° 40’ W |
| Vice County | South Wilts, VC no: 8 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 1 Nov 2014[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Fresh damp fruitbody easily, completely and intactly, peels off the substrate with a finger nail.
Spore print: almost white, BFF "B", non-amyloid.
Spores: cylindric-ellipsoiid, smooth, hyaline, usually with one or two oil drops, 5-7.5/3-3.5µm, (many spores 7µm long); cyanophilic (staining blue in lactophenol cotton blue).
Basidia: 4-spored.
Cuticle: filamentous, smooth, hyaline, very thick-walled wtih narrow lumen, occasionally septate, not clamped, occasionally branched, 3-5µm diam. with rounded tips.
Contact cuticle (where attached to substrate) similar, walls less thick, more branched, occasionally with swollen junctions.
Context: similar hyphae; crystals present in the layer above the hymenium, but they’re mostly not attached to the hyphae.
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