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Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare (Huds.) P. Kumm., 1871 (Sulphur Tuft)

Date: 15 October 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 15/10/2000[C]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on dead Beech stump
Associated organism: on dead stump of Fagus sylvatica
Identification Notes: Spore print: "purplish date".
Spores: ellipsoid, pale greyish brown under microscope, with apical thinning, 6-7/4-4.5µm
Basidia 4-spored.
Veil hyphae: yellow, septate, clamped, filamentous hyphae, 3-5µm broad, cylindric, thin-walled, largely obscured by adherent spores.
Gill edge infertile, with hylaine leginform cystidia
Chrysocystidia present but mainly facial.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - close-up 500 by 489 pixels
naked eye photograph Caps - close-up 500 by 397 pixels
naked eye photograph Cluster of fruitbodies - from below 460 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Cluster of fruitbodies - from slightly below 500 by 484 pixels
naked eye photograph Cluster of fruitbodies 500 by 474 pixels
naked eye photograph Clustered fruitbodies 325 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Gill and ring-zone near top of stipe 500 by 443 pixels
naked eye photograph Gills and ring-zone near top of stipes 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph In situ 500 by 388 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia on gill edge with adjacent chrysocystidium 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Chrysocystidia 500 by 466 pixels
microscope photograph Chrysocystidium 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge 500 by 311 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 43 Kb 375 by 349 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 39 Kb 368 by 389 pixels

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