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Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
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(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
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HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)
HELOTIACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)
Ascocoryne
(a genus of discomycetes)
Ascocoryne sarcoides
(Purple Jellydisc)
Record
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Ascocoryne sarcoides (Jacq.) J.W. Groves & D.E. Wilson, 1967 (Purple Jellydisc)

Date: 3 November 1998
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 03/11/1998[D]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on fallen decorticated ?willow
Associated organism: fallen decorticated trunk of Salix?
Identification Notes: Spores: 15-18/4.5-5µm
Paraphyses: spathulate, tips c. 3µm.

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magnified photograph Apothecia - side view 12 Kb 257 by 181 pixels
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magnified photograph Imperfect (left) and perfect (right) stages 23 Kb 463 by 194 pixels
magnified photograph Imperfect stage 23 Kb 396 by 225 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 24 Kb 309 by 320 pixels
microscope photograph Excipular hyphae 16 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Paraphyses among asci 10 Kb 103 by 260 pixels
microscope photograph Paraphysis 3 Kb 41 by 230 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 17 Kb 343 by 215 pixels

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