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Hypoxylon Bull., 1791 (woodwart fungi)

Date: 6 October 2002
Location: North Wiltshire, England
Voucher: 06/10/2002[B]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on Beech stump
Associated organism: on dead stump of Fagus sylvatica
Identification Notes: Ascospores: grey, narrowly ellipsoid-phaseoliform with germination slit along the long side, 10-11/4µm
Spore print: black
Ostiole: papillate
10%KOH on fruitbody on tissue immediately gives rusty pigment.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cross-section - enlarged 500 by 342 pixels
magnified photograph Cross-section - magnified 500 by 469 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody with spore deposits after a couple of days in box 500 by 319 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody with spore deposits after a couple of days in box 500 by 224 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody with spore deposits after a couple of days in box 500 by 320 pixels
magnified photograph Perithecia - magnified - showing ostioles 500 by 277 pixels
magnified photograph Perithecia - magnified 500 by 332 pixels
naked eye photograph Stroma - close-up 500 by 318 pixels
naked eye photograph Stroma - close-up 500 by 321 pixels
naked eye photograph Stroma 500 by 233 pixels
magnified photograph Surrounding mycelium - magnified 500 by 321 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 332 pixels
microscope photograph Asci and paraphyses - magnified 500 by 269 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - magnified 386 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - highly magnified 500 by 390 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - highly magnified 500 by 369 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - highly magnified 500 by 380 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - highly magnified 500 by 461 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tips - apical aparatus stained in iodine 20 Kb 416 by 229 pixels

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