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13-07-2011, 10:51 PM
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| | | unidentified ascomycete
Please could you give me some pointers on how to ID this (is it a case of just going through the macroscopic features, habitat & time of year or do I need to get a microscope involved?):  
Feel free to tell me what you think it is. Found in beech leaf litter today.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
Last edited by manchesterben; 13-07-2011 at 10:57 PM.
Reason: didnt get the photo link right
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13-07-2011, 11:07 PM
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| | | Re: unidentified ascomycete
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Originally Posted by manchesterben  Please could you give me some pointers on how to ID this (is it a case of just going through the macroscopic features, habitat & time of year or do I need to get a microscope involved?):
Feel free to tell me what you think it is. Found in beech leaf litter today.
Thanks in advance,
Ben | hi Ben
photo number 2 - while confusingly at 90 degrees to its 'proper' view shows very nicely the split down one side which marks this out as an Otidea; after that it gets more complicated and you're correct in that microscopy would help
it looks close to Otidea alutacea, but that's a suggestion not a firm ID
cheers
Chris
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13-07-2011, 11:08 PM
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| | | Re: unidentified ascomycete
Because it has the typical vertical "slit" from margin of cup down to base, I'd say it was one of the Otidea species.
Colouration generally looks like O.cochleata, but there are a couple of others it could easily be. (I think it would need microscopy to be absolutely certain).
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13-07-2011, 11:18 PM
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| | | Re: unidentified ascomycete
That's great - cheers. No microscope here so Otidea sp is as far as I go... |
13-07-2011, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by manchesterben That's great - cheers. No microscope here so Otidea sp is as far as I go... | I know the feeling! - but even getting to genera level is an achievement with lots of the fungi.
I've only recently joined the world of the microscopists - and using it raises many more questions than it seems to answer.  (Good fun trying though).
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