BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Hymenochaete corrugata (Fr.) Lév., 1846 (Glue Fungus)

Date: 28 September 1998
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 28/09/1998[B]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on underside of Alder(?) log
Associated organism: on cut log
Identification Notes: Fruitbody: smoke grey, patchily stained sienna, fulvous or snuff brown where it has got wet; black in KOH.
Margin: whitish, radially fibrillose.
Microscopically, the surface is white (perhaps v. pale pink) with abundant projecting reddish brown setae which give the fungus its colour macroscopically.
Spores: not seen.
Setae: thick-walled, hollow, often sinuate, base curved, forked, black in KOH.
Context hyphae: sienna, without setae, thick-walled, septate, not clamped.

Images etc

magnified photograph Fruitbody + KOH 29 Kb 387 by 297 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - close-up 500 by 313 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - close-up 500 by 390 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody 500 by 165 pixels
microscope photograph Seta (in KOH) composite shot 11 Kb 216 by 348 pixels
microscope photograph Seta (in KOH) 15 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Seta (in water) 18 Kb 179 by 231 pixels
microscope photograph Setae (in KOH) 26 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Setae (in water) 22 Kb 240 by 320 pixels
microscope photograph Setae (in water) 23 Kb 233 by 253 pixels
microscope photograph Setae (in water) 31 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Setae - tips (in water) 17 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Setae - tips (in water) 20 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Setae - young one with less intense colour (in KOH) 15 Kb 320 by 240 pixels

Creative Commons License
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by
Malcolm Storey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales