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| Record Summary | Two large, rather wet, clusters on large, dead, fallen Beech trunk |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 4 November 2014 |
| Associated organism | Fagus sylvatica |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU20 |
| Lat/Lon | 50° 50’ N, 1° 40’ W |
| Vice County | South Hants, VC no: 11 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 4 Nov 2014[B] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
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Spore print: BFF "umber".
Spores: broadly ellipsoid, pale brown in water, (8)9-11/5-6µm. Germ pore not visible - perhaps a suggestion at 40x.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Cap cuticle: thin-walled, vacuolate, cylindirc to slightly inflated, septate, clamped, branched, filamentous hyphae 2.5-5µm diam., in mucilaginous matrix.
Gill edge: thickly lined with cheilocystidia.
Cheilocystidia: cylindric or clavate to lageniform, often flexuous below, clamped at base.
Pleurocystidia: clavate to clavate-mucronate chrysocystidia.
[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]The following literature was used to identify this find:
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