BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

PEZIZOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of cup fungi and discomycetes)

PEZIZALES
(an order of cup fungi and discomycetes)

PYRONEMATACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

Octospora
(a genus of discomycetes)

Octospora
is also a member of:

Discomycetes
(via Pezizales)

Lower Plants
(via Fungi ss.)

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Octospora Hedw., 1789 (a genus of discomycetes)

Date:	20 September 2001
OS grid ref:	SU91
Lat/Lon:	50° 50' N, 0° 40' W
Location:	Vice County: West Sussex, VC13, England
Voucher:	20/09/2001[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)
Stage or state:	Fruitbody
Record Summary:	amongst moss in wheel rut
Associated organism:	small Dicranales
Identification Notes:	Marginal hairs: abundant, hyaline, 13-17µm diam, clavate, septate. Asci: 8-spored, apex not blued in Melzer's Iodine. Paraphyses: knobbed, tips ≤7.5µm diam, orange, green in Melzer's Iodine. Ascospores: with two oil drops, 12/6.5µm (immature?), fusiform or elliptic.

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