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Melanotus phillipsii (Berk. & Broome) Singer, 1973 (Grass Oysterling)

Date: 28 September 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: MWS 28/9/00 [T]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: single fruitbody on dead monocot leaf
Associated organism: on dead leaf of Liliidae
Identification Notes: 2nd Britsh Record.
Cap: deeply convex, with separable gelatinous pellicle, pellucid-striate almost to centre, 5mm diam
Stipe: slightly excentric, curved and attached to vertical leaf fragment.
Spores: 6-7/3.5-4µm, grey under microscope.
Cheilocystidia: chunky-tipped.

Images etc

magnified photograph Fruitbody - gills 500 by 400 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - side view 500 by 400 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - side view 422 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - stipe 500 by 418 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - top view 500 by 394 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - underside 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores (from gill) 424 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores 500 by 359 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores 61 Kb 491 by 417 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores 28 Kb 490 by 246 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia 500 by 360 pixels

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