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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
PEZIZALES
(an order of cup fungi and discomycetes)
PEZIZACEAE
(cup fungi)
Peziza
(a genus of cup fungi)
Peziza vesiculosa
(Blistered Cup)
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Peziza vesiculosa Bull., 1789 (Blistered Cup)

Date: 21 April 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 21/04/2000[E]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on dungy straw heap
Identification Notes: Spores: smooth, ellipsoid, 23/12µm.
Paraphyses: thin-walled, tips slightly swollen (c. 5µm), contents granular brown.
Ascus: tip strongly blued in Melzer's Iodine.
Apothecium: multilayered

Images etc

magnified photograph Apothecium - VS - dark background 500 by 369 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - VS - dark background 500 by 372 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecium - VS - pale background 500 by 371 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - dug out 500 by 361 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - in situ 498 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - young - side view 451 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Small fruitbodies - in situ 500 by 413 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores and ascus tip 401 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tips 470 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Paraphyses 401 by 500 pixels

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