Record Summary | 3 colonies (2 plasmodia, 1 sporocarps) emerging from Sphagnum up grass. |
Found as | Sporocarp |
Date | 12 August 2015 |
Capture method | swept |
Associated organism | Sphagnum |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU00 |
Lat/Lon | 50° 50’ N, 1° 50’ W |
Vice County | Dorset, VC no: 9 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 12 Aug 2015[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Sporocarps: dull orange, coating and spreading up grass and twigs in an untidy sheet; clustered to shallowly heaped.
Peridium: granular, calcareous, orange, smooth or wrinkled, loose and easily broken away to reveal dark inner peridium. Non-wrinkled sporocarps have small, patchily distributed, glassy pores.
Peridial pores: appearing glassy on entire sporocarp, hyaline and crystalline s.m.,
Hypothallus: extensive, orange.
Spores: dark brown in mass, pale brownish by transmitted light, c. 10µ diam, densely minutely spiny under oil immersion.
Capillitium: scanty, delicate, of hyaline sparsely-branched threads, c 1µm diam.
Plasmodium: bright ochre-orange.
The following literature was used to identify this find:
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