Podoscypha multizonata (Berk. & Broome) Pat., 1928 (Zoned Rosette)

Date:	21 October 2000
OS grid ref:	SU56
Lat/Lon:	51° 30' N, 1° 10' W
Location:	Vice County: Berks, VC22, England
Voucher:	21/10/2000[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)
Stage or state:	Fruitbody
Record Summary:	apparently on soil, under Oak
Associated organism:	under Quercus robur
Identification Notes:	Form: wrinkled sheets, fused at edges and where touch neighbours; final 5mm or so translucent when held to light; extreme edge sharp and finely white pruinose. Fungus dries patchily black. Upper surface: matt with short sharp longitudinal ridges, especially towards base. "Buff" towards base, tinged "vinaceous buff" towards margin. Under surface: pale "vinaceous buff", longitudinally wrinkled. Flesh: fibrous, pale "brick", (below and when waterlogged) to "fawn" then "buff" upwards; growing around grass stems. Smell: sweetly fungussy. Taste: none, chewy, slightly bitter after chewing. Spores: broadly ellipsoid, with a single large oil drop, 6-7/5-6µm, non-amyloid, often forming regular arrangements ("crystalline") in spore print. Basidia: 4-spored. Basidiomes: clamped at base. Trama: dimitic, with thin-walled clamped generative hyphae and refractive hyphae 2.5-4µm wide.