Record Summary | on fallen, soft-rotten Beech twig |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 7 December 2014 |
Associated organism | Fagus sylvatica |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU30 |
Lat/Lon | 50° 50’ N, 1° 30’ W |
Vice County | South Hants, VC no: 11 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 7 Dec 2014[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Basidia 4-spored.
Spores: large, ellipsoid, 23-27/16.5-19µm, with long, cylindrical, amyloid spines up to 2µm long, and one to several large oil drops, and small, strongly amyloid, plage at base of non-amyloid apiculus. Some spores have a single large spine at the apex or are germinating. Spore wall weakly cyanophilic, contents more strongly so.
Hymenium with acanthocystidia, coralloid leptocystidia and moniliform leptocystidia.
Squash preps with many oil drops and with crystals.
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