BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) FUNGI SS. (true fungi) BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers) BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes) POLYPORALES (polypores) FOMITOPSIDACEAE (a family of bracket fungi) Postia (a genus of bracket fungi) Postia sp. ined. (near P. ptychogaster) (a bracket fungus) Record Postia sp. ined. (near P. ptychogaster) is also a member of: Fungi sl. Lower Plants (via Fungi ss.)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Postia sp. ined. (near P. ptychogaster) (a bracket fungus) Date: 7 October 2000 OS grid ref: SU67 Lat/Lon: 51° 30' N, 1° 10' W Location: Vice County: Berks, VC22, England Voucher: MWS: 7/10/00 [B] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Fruitbody Record Summary: on Yew log sections Associated organism: on log sections of Taxus baccata Identification Notes: Well-developed brackets + imperfect stage Imperfect stage: pinkish when young, exuding red droplets, becoming brown as matures, soft. Perfect stage: a pallid Coriolus-like bracket, but softer and with larger pores. Spores: 4-5/2-3µm, ellipsoid, hyaline Context hyphae: septate, clamped, cylindric, 3.75-5µm wide. Chlamydospores: 5.5-7/3.5-4.5µm, thick-walled. Images standard photographs and close-ups macro-photographs microscope photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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