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Ciboria caucus (Rebent.) Fuckel, 1870 (Alder Goblet)

Date: 16 February 1975
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 16/02/1975[F]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on mud and rotting sticks under Alder
Associated organism: under Alnus glutinosus
Identification Notes: Ascospores: 8-9(10)/4-5µm, hyaline, ellipsoid-fusiform.
Asci: 148µm long, 8-spored, strongly blueing in Gram's iodine.
Excipulum: cells spherical, blue in iodine.
Paraphyses: hyaline, unbranched, cylindric, slightly clavate 6µm (in iodine)

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