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Hypocrea aureoviridis
(a pyrenomycete)
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Hypocrea aureoviridis Plowr. & Cooke, 1880 (a pyrenomycete)

Date: 25 September 1999
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 25/09/1999[E]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: under fallen ?Oak branch
Identification Notes: Part spores: 3.3-5µm, spherical to oblong (oblong spores from the base of the ascus) green, prickly.
Ascus unchanged in Melzer's Iodine

The close-up pictures are too bright yellow.

Images etc

magnified photograph Fruitbodies - immature (L) to mature (R) 500 by 167 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - immature - close-up 500 by 401 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - immature 11 Kb 296 by 191 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - mature - close-up 63 Kb 442 by 427 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - mature - close-up 56 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - mature 29 Kb 395 by 244 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies on wood 500 by 91 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - immature - close-up 43 Kb 457 by 462 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - immature - side view 500 by 321 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - LS - close-up 30 Kb 355 by 338 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - LS showing perithecia embedded in stroma 500 by 234 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - mature - close-up 52 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - mature - close-up 28 Kb 335 by 277 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - underside 31 Kb 420 by 405 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody surface - close-up showing ostioles 64 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 19 Kb 249 by 390 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 37 Kb 477 by 394 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus 3 Kb 32 by 280 pixels
microscope photograph Part spores - aggregation from spore print 26 Kb 365 by 276 pixels
microscope photograph Part spores 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Part-spores - close-up 24 Kb 359 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Stroma - cell structure (yellow area to left is the pigmented wall) 500 by 401 pixels

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