Hyphoderma setigerum (Fr.) Donk, (a resupinate fungus)


5 Oct 2002 at OSGR: SU57 in Berks, England

Record Summarytowards base of old damp fallen Beech log
Found asFruitbody
Date5 October 2002
Associated organismFagus sylvatica
OS grid refOSGR: SU57
Lat/Lon51° 30’ N, 1° 10’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher5 Oct 2002[C]
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Notes:

Pale pinkish buff coating with thick projecting cystidia (clear visible under hand lens).

Hymenium a soft, closed, lumpy surface; margin abrupt and often showing paler underlying hyphae; some loose cobwebby mycelium adjacent.

Spore print: white, non-amyloid.

Spores: ellipsoid, hyaline, smooth, 8-13/5µm, 8-12/4-5µm.

Basidia: 4-spored, 35/µm, sterigmata 6.5µm long.

Cystidia: 190/10-18µm, cylindric or clamped (when ≤280/≤38µm), septate, clamped or not, often encrusted.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

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