Record Summary | Single fruitbody among Polytrichum |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 14 October 1997 |
Associated organism | Polytrichum |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 14 Oct 1997[N] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Apothecium glabrous, rather hard, attached by small central peg.
Ripe asci protruding above hymenium.
Excipulum of tangled filamentous hyphae.
Spores biseriate, narrowly fusiform-allantoid or broader at one end or bent at broad end, with 1-2 large and 2-4 smaller oil drops, 13-17/4-5.5µm, some sepate.
Asci not blued in iodine.
Paraphyses narrowly cylindric, 2µm diam, sparsely forked at base, brown in iodine.
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