BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hymenoscyphus scutula (Pers.) W. Phillips, 1887 (a discomycete)
| Date: | 22 October 2006 |
| Location: | Carmarthen, Wales |
| Voucher: | 22/10/2006[B] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Fruitbody |
| Record Summary: | on dead stems of Lemon Balm |
| Associated organism: | on dead stem of Melissa officinalis |
| Identification Notes: | Hymenium drying yellowish. Exudes pink juice when rewetted. Ascospores: clavate-fusiform, with linear appendage at each end and one very large or two large oil drops, 18-26/4-4.5µm. Asci: plug weakely blued in Melzer's Iodine, spores biseriate. Paraphyses: cylindric, tips slightly swollen to 2-3µm, shortly overtopping the asci. Excipular hairs: poorly differentiated, brown-tipped, septate hyphae. |
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