BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hemimycena tortuosa (P.D. Orton) Redhead, 1980 (Dewdrop Bonnet)
| Date: | 20 December 1998 |
| Location: | Berks, England |
| Voucher: | 20/12/1998[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Fruitbody |
| Record Summary: | on sallow |
| Associated organism: | on dead small trunk of Salix ?caprea |
| Identification Notes: | Surprisingly tough for such a fragile-looking fungus. Basidia: 4-spored. Spores: 8-10.5/3.5µm, with 1 oil-drop, cylindric-lageniform. Cheilocystidia: small, hyaline, pointed. Hairs on stipe: hyaline, capitate, spiral; also with branched hyaline hyphae (but this may have been due to keeping them in a damp box for a week) |
Images etc
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Fruitbodies - close-up | 17 Kb | 415 by 268 pixels | |
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Fruitbodies - close-up | 9 Kb | 354 by 163 pixels | |
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Fruitbodies - growing through moss | 25 Kb | 174 by 352 pixels | |
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Fruitbodies - growing through moss | 29 Kb | 266 by 326 pixels | |
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Fruitbodies growing through moss | 35 Kb | 279 by 391 pixels | |
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Caulocystidia - dry | 13 Kb | 412 by 155 pixels | |
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Caulocystidia - dry | 10 Kb | 420 by 133 pixels | |
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Caulocystidia | 15 Kb | 374 by 203 pixels | |
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Caulocystidia | 19 Kb | 320 by 269 pixels | |
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Cheilocystidia | 16 Kb | 226 by 319 pixels | |
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Gill edge | 10 Kb | 317 by 100 pixels | |
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Spores | 16 Kb | 320 by 240 pixels | |
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Spores | 15 Kb | 320 by 240 pixels | |
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Stipe hairs | 14 Kb | 320 by 240 pixels |
