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| Record Summary | against the ground, on underside of dead, fallen, decorticate oak wood chunk |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 13 November 2014 |
| Associated organism | Quercus |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU00 |
| Lat/Lon | 50° 50’ N, 1° 60’ W |
| Vice County | Dorset, VC no: 9 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 13 Nov 2014[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
On a chunk of dead, fallen, rotting wood; on the underside, against the ground. The wood was rotting but still hard.
Asci: 8-spored, pore blued in iodine.
Ascospores: narrowly lacrymoiform, 5-7/2µm.
Paraphyses: 60/2µm, cylindric-fusiform, longer than the asci.
Excipital hairs: 75µm long, multi-septate, cylindric, 2µm diam, with swollen tips 3-4µm diam., granulate lower down or soemtimes over whole surface.
Drying: very pale buff; stalks often darker, pale orange; hairs remaining white. The discolouration may just be water wicking up from the substrate.
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