Ramaria gracilis (Pers.) Quél., (a coral fungus)


21 Oct 2004 at OSGR: SO71 in West Glos, England

Record Summaryin hedge bottom under Field Maple
Found asFruitbody
Date21 October 2004
Associated organismAcer campestre
Habitat featureHedge bottom
OS grid refOSGR: SO71
Lat/Lon51° 50’ N, 2° 20’ W
Vice CountyWest Glos, VC no: 34
CountryEngland
Voucher21 Oct 2004[B]
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Notes:

Fruitbodies: small and spindly, yellow-brown, tightly against and all round Field Maple trunk in old hedge.

Growing on rather dry, bleached litter; with white rhizomorphs.

Taste: mild, slowly bitterish.

Spore print: yellowish

Spores: ellipsoid, rough, 4.5-5.5/3µm.

Rhizomorphs with clamped hyphae strongly swollen at septa (to 9µm), and narrower clamped hyphae with stellate crystals which are not dissolved in ammonia.

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