BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Mucronella calva (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr., 1874 (a tooth fungus)

Date: 5 April 1999
Location: North Hampshire, England
Voucher: 05/04/1999[B]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on bark of cut pine log
Associated organism: on cut bark of Pinus
Identification Notes: Spines solitary, drying yellowish.
Spores: ellipsoid, no-oil drops, 3.5-5/3µm.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Cystidia not seen.
Hyphae hyaline, thin-walled and hard to see.

Images etc

magnified photograph Fruitbody - close-up 36 Kb 341 by 427 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - close-up 35 Kb 341 by 427 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody 25 Kb 131 by 389 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody 40 Kb 231 by 387 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody 28 Kb 169 by 373 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody 168 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Basidium 5 Kb 106 by 204 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - close-up 17 Kb 427 by 280 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 35 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Tip of spine 37 Kb 332 by 389 pixels
microscope photograph Tip of spine 19 Kb 309 by 313 pixels

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