15 November 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Head tongue like, rough and blackish, stem cylindrical, scaly and dark brown, to about 6.5 cm high Flesh Firm, pale brown in the head, black in the stem Smell Fungal Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat Acid grassland, usually on poor soil with mosses Microscopic Features Ascospores long and thin, rod-like, 0 to 13 septa (50-115) x (5-6) µm2. Paraphyses cylindrical, septate, swollen at the tips. 8 ascospores per ascus. Edibility Inedible Notes This species cannot be identified without microscopy. 
15 November 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright . 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x40 objective. 15 November 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Ascus with coloured septate spores in cotton blue viewed with a x40 objective. 15 November 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Paraphyses tips in cotton blue viewed with a x40 objective. 15 November 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
22 November 2008 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
22 November 2008 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
16 November 2008 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Aseptate ascospores viewed with a x40 objective. 16 November 2008 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
At the centre is an ascus with emerging spores viewed with a x40 objective. 16 November 2008 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
At the centre are some ascospores viewed with a x40 objective. 16 November 2008 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |