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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
SORDARIOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of ascomycetes and lichens)
XYLARIALES
(an order of pyrenomycetes)
DIATRYPACEAE
(a family of stromatic pyrenomycetes)
Quaternaria
(a genus of pyrenomycete fungi)
Quaternaria quaternata
(a valsoid pyrenomycete)
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Quaternaria quaternata (Pers.) J. Schröt., 1897 (a valsoid pyrenomycete)

Date: 13 April 2005
Location: South Hampshire, England
Voucher: 13/04/2005[B]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: On dead Beech twig attached to fallen bough
Associated organism: on dead twig of Fagus sylvatica
Identification Notes: Perithecia in groups with shared compound ostiole.
Contents black.

Images etc

magnified photograph Ostioles - magnified 500 by 332 pixels
magnified photograph Perithecial groups - bark cut away - deeply - magnified 500 by 332 pixels
magnified photograph Perithecial groups - bark cut away - shallowly - magnified 500 by 390 pixels
magnified photograph Perithecial groups - bark cut away - shallowly - magnified 500 by 329 pixels
magnified photograph Two ostioles (moved together in photo) - magnified 500 by 367 pixels
magnified photograph Two ostioles - in situ - magnified 500 by 332 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 490 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 346 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 309 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 287 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 391 pixels
microscope photograph Asci and ascospores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Asci and ascospores - magnified 500 by 440 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - highly magnified 500 by 356 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - highly magnified 492 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores and ascus tip - highly magnified 456 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tip - highly magnified 405 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Perithecial contents - magnified 500 by 333 pixels

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