BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hypoxylon fragiforme (Scop.) J. Kickx f., 1835 (Beech Woodwart)
| Date: | 7 October 2007 |
| Location: | North Wiltshire, England |
| Voucher: | 07/10/2007[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Fruitbody |
| Record Summary: | Fruitbodies on fallen Beech twig |
| Associated organism: | on dead, fallen twig of Fagus sylvatica |
| Identification Notes: | Ascocarps 3-4.5mm diam, globular, with slightly raised pimples containing ostioles. Occasional ostioles with friable mass of ascospores. Under the microscope, the spores in these masses seem to be damaged. Ascospores 13-14/6µm, 8 per ascus. Asci: 90/8.5µm, plus stalk c. 50µm. Ascus tip blued in iodine, actually a ring which shows as two right-angle triangles with their hypotenuses outwards and below. |
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Fruitbodies - side view - enlarged | 500 by 281 pixels | ||
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Fruitbodies - side view - highly enlarged | 500 by 318 pixels | ||
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Fruitbodies - top view - enlarged | 500 by 240 pixels | ||
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Fruitbody - LS - highly enlarged | 500 by 430 pixels | ||
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Fruitbody - surface - magnified | 500 by 438 pixels | ||
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Asci - magnified | 500 by 486 pixels | ||
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Asci - magnified | 500 by 461 pixels | ||
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Ascospores from superficial deposit - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Ascospores from superficial deposit - highly magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Ascospores from superficial deposit - highly magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Ascospores in asci - magnified | 500 by 264 pixels | ||
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Ascus tips - highly magnified | 500 by 435 pixels | ||
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Asocspores and ascus tip - highly magnified | 443 by 500 pixels |
