BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Tomentella Pat., 1887 (a genus of mycorrhizal resupinate fungi)
| Date: | 17 September 2006 |
| Location: | Berks, England |
| Voucher: | 17/09/2006[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Fruitbody |
| Record Summary: | on patches of bare soil in Sphagnum bog in woodland under birch |
| Associated organism: | below live tree of Betula |
| Identification Notes: | Fruitbody: resupinate, thin, adherent, mucedinous, sparsely pilose. Spores: 8/6µm, echinulate. Basidia: hyaline, clamped, 4-spored. Hyphae: clamped, hyaline, becoming brown. Pilosity appears to be due to conidiophores of a hyphomycete (Penicllium?) with globose hyaline conidia 2-3µm diam, produced from a terminal whorl or whorl of whorls of short phialides. |
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