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Tubaria furfuracea (Pers.) Gillet, 1876 (Scurfy Twiglet)

Date: 4 November 2003
Location: Oxon, England
Voucher: 04/11/2003[A]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on Beech mast on ground
Associated organism: on old mast of Fagus sylvatica
Identification Notes: Cap: 18mm diam., pellucid-striate.
Gills: subdecurrent.
Stipe: 2mm diam, concolourous.
Spore print: BFF: "fulvous"
Cheilocystidia: lageniform-capitate to cylindric capitate, apex 5-8µm diam, length c. 50µm, clamped at base.
Spores: 7-8.5/4.5-5µm, ellipsoid.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Cap cuticle: filamentous: encrusted, sausage shaped cells 8-12µm diam, in skeins forming an open structure.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - dry - enlarged 500 by 480 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap - moist - enlarged 500 by 474 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap - moist - enlarged 500 by 474 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap - moist - enlarged 500 by 440 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - enlarged 311 by 500 pixels
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naked eye photograph Gills - enlarged 500 by 440 pixels
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naked eye photograph Stipe base - enlarged 500 by 350 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 256 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 256 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 249 pixels
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microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 202 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 374 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 473 by 500 pixels

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