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Lachnellula occidentalis (G.G. Hahn & Ayers) Dharne, 1965 (Larch Disco)

Date: 18 December 1999
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 18/12/1999[C]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on fallen Larch twigs
Associated organism: on fallen twigs of Larix
Identification Notes: Discs: bright orange.
Ascospores: 16-20.5/7-8µm.
Asci: 8-spored, tip not blued in Melzer's Iodine.
Marginal hairs: finely encrusted.
Paraphyses: mixed, some smooth and linear, others septate, swollen and shortly branched.

Images etc

magnified photograph Apothecia - close-up 46 Kb 406 by 373 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecia - close-up 49 Kb 440 by 318 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecia - close-up 68 Kb 469 by 427 pixels
naked eye photograph Apothecia on Larch branch 14 Kb 160 by 135 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - close-up 19 Kb 296 by 225 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - close-up 500 by 413 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - close-up 72 Kb 452 by 412 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - side view 22 Kb 315 by 288 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - side view 43 Kb 422 by 350 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 117 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores 5 Kb 254 by 80 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus and ascospores 500 by 343 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus and ascospores 500 by 346 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tip 19 Kb 230 by 417 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus 128 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Marginal hair - tip - encrusted 7 Kb 74 by 313 pixels
microscope photograph Marginal hairs - encrusted 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Marginal hairs - encrusted 37 Kb 341 by 427 pixels
microscope photograph Marginal hairs - encrusted 54 Kb 427 by 452 pixels
microscope photograph Marginal hairs - encrusted 88 Kb 427 by 480 pixels
microscope photograph Paraphyses - cylindric forms 39 Kb 287 by 417 pixels
microscope photograph Paraphyses - septate, branching forms 73 Kb 438 by 422 pixels

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