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LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
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HELOTIALES
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HELOTIACEAE
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Hymenoscyphus
(a genus of discomycetes)
Hymenoscyphus imberbis
(a discomycete)
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Hymenoscyphus imberbis (Bull.) Dennis, 1964 (a discomycete)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 8 April 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 08/04/2000[B]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on wet, fallen twigs under Alder
Associated organism: on wet, fallen twigs of Alnus glutinosus
Identification Notes: Apothecia: sessile to stalked, dirty white drying pale brown.
Spores: 5.5-9.5/3-3.5µm
Asci with apical cap very slightly blue in Melzer's Iodine

Images etc

magnified photograph Apothecia 500 by 320 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - underside 500 by 373 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium 100 Kb 470 by 483 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium 97 Kb 464 by 431 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores 27 Kb 404 by 293 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tips 11 Kb 201 by 195 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus 11 Kb 88 by 483 pixels
microscope photograph Context 44 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Context 56 Kb 427 by 341 pixels

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