BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of ascomycetes and lichens)

HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)

HYALOSCYPHACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

Lachnum
(a genus of discomycetes)

Lachnum controversum
(a discomycete)

Lachnum controversum
is also a member of:

Discomycetes
(via Helotiales)

Lower Plants
(via Fungi ss.)

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Lachnum controversum (Cooke) Rehm, 1889 (a discomycete)

Date:	3 June 2000
OS grid ref:	SU56
Lat/Lon:	51° 20' N, 1° 20' W
Location:	Vice County: Berks, VC22, England
Voucher:	03/06/2000[S] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)
Stage or state:	Fruitbody
Record Summary:	on reed debris
Associated organism:	on dead stem of Phragmites australis
Identification Notes:	Paraphyses protruding up to 25µm above asci. Ascus pore weakly blue in Melzer's iodine. Spores: narrow, straight, fusiform, 7-9/1.5µm. Hairs: 3µm diam, or slightly swollen (to 3.5µm) at tips, granulate, not obviously septate.

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