Melastiza contorta (Massee & Crossl.) Spooner & Y.J. Yao, (a discomycete)


17 Jan 2017 at OSGR: SZ29 in South Hants, England

Record Summaryc. 15 fruitbodies on ground among Scots Pine litter under pine, oak, Beech
Found asFruitbody
Date17 January 2017
Associated organismPinus sylvestris
OS grid refOSGR: SZ29
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 1° 40’ W
Vice CountySouth Hants, VC no: 11
CountryEngland

Notes:

Marginal hairs upto 320/20µm, septate, thin-walled, cylindric, apical cell hardly expanded.

Paraphyses: cyclindric, 3-4(5)µm diam. with granular orange contents, apex rounded swollen, upto 10 µm diam.; greenish grey in Melzer’s Iodine, weakly cyanophilic.

Ascus: tip unchanged in Melzer’s Iodine.

Ascospores: ellipsoid, 12-13/22-25µm, with large cyanophilic warts, contents with two oil-drops that are especially noticeable when immature when the spore resembles Anthracobia.

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