20 November 2023 Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Tongue shaped, flattened, narrowing towards the base, black, to about 8 cm high Flesh Black, brittle Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Late summer to early winter Distribution Infrequent Habitat Unimproved grassland Spore Print White Microscopic Features Ascospores long and thin, rod-like, 7 septa (50-90) x (5-7) µm2. Asci eight spored. Paraphyses cylindrical, septate, the tips resembling a string of irregular beads. Edibility Inedible Notes This species cannot be identified without microscopy. 
Paraphyses tips and spores in Congo Red viewed with a 40X objective. 20 November 2023 Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
1 November 2020 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
1 November 2020 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 1 November 2020 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Paraphyses tips in Congo Red viewed with a 40X objective. 1 November 2020 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
December 2000 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
October 2000 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |