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Merismodes fasciculata (Schwein.) Earle, 1909 (a cyphelloid basidiomycete)

Date: 23 November 2006
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 23/11/2006[E]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: basidio-cups on fallen stick in ditch under Oak
Identification Notes: Marginal hairs: orange, rough-walled, 3µm diam, aseptate, some with smooth, hyaline, thin-walled swollen apices.

Spores: 6.5-8/2.5µm, arcuate-cylindric, sausage-shaped, hyaline under microscope (narrower and more curved than shown by B&K)

Images etc

naked eye photograph Colony - close-up - enlarged 500 by 308 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
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magnified photograph Fruitbodies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Marginal hairs - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 422 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 319 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 333 pixels

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