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| Record Summary | dark violaceous-brown apothecia on old fire-ste |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 15 March 2017 |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU00 |
| Lat/Lon | 50° 50’ N, 1° 50’ W |
| Vice County | Dorset, VC no: 9 |
| Country | England |
Notes:
Asci 8-spored, tip blued in Melzer’s Iodine.
Ascospores: ellipsoid, with two small guttules, finely warted under oil immersion. 12-13/7-8µm. Immature spores stain in lactophenol cotton blue but older spores in ascus, including wall ornament, unstained. Spores from a spore print show very finely rough with minute and separate warts that faintly stain in lactophenol cotton blue.
Paraphyses: with dark violaceous granular contents, apex slightly swollen and curved to one side.
This is P. praetervisa sensu Dennis with rough spores, which is now called P. violacea.
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