fennermartin's Identifications

Growing on an herbaceous stem that was embedded in mud.

Apothecia long stipitate, stipes nearly 1cm long, disc about 3mm wide. Yellow hymenium with white floccose stipe.

Asci IKI+ with croziers
56.0-77.5 x 4.0-6.0µm

Paraphyses lanceolate
68-118 x 3.3-5.5µm

Hairs roughened, septate, some with capitate ends. The width of the capitate ends 4.4-5.6µm

Spores hyaline, fusiform, eguttulate
7-11 x 1.5-2.3µm
Me 8.5-2.0µm
Q 3.6-6.5
Qe 4.4
N=45

Excipulum textura prismatica/intricata

Found under dead decaying hardwood. Near dead elm tree.
Fruiting body had a yellowish-white hymenium. Crystal druses on marginal hairs. Paraphyses are thick and sharply lanceolate. Abundant irregularly globose crystalline masses. Spore and asci sizes a fit for L. clavigerum.

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