date of photo Oct 25, 2012
latitude 46.33079 longitude 13.69138
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location
Vrsnik valley, at the foot of Mt. Črni vrh, 1.544 m (5.064 feet), above the road to ‘Na skali’ village, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: deviška tratnica - Habitat: Open, unimproved grassland, pasture; moderately northeast oriented mountain slope, calcareous ground, mostly sunny, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevations 620 m (2.050 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comments: growing in a small group of about 10 pilei more or less in line; pileus slightly sticky, hydrophanous, pileus diameter 2.5 – 3.5 cm, stem up to 6 cm long, 4-6 mm in diameter, some compressed, fibrillose, slightly pinkish tint at the base; context white, brittle, yet less than in for example with H. pratensis or H. punicea; SP faint, whitish (?); taste indistinctive, smell almost indistinctive, very mild, on pharmacy(?). - Spore dimensions: 8.8 (SD = 0.6) x 5.1 (SD = 0.5) micr., Q = 1.75 (SD = 0.15), n = 30. Olympus CH20, Olympus NEA 100x/1,25, oil, magnification 1.000 x, in water. Ref.:(1) and (2) report spore dimensions from two-spored basidia to be somewhat greater, up to 12 x 6 microns, which probably explains my measurements, which fall outside reported data from literature valid for four-spored basidia. - Ref.: (1) D. Boertmann, Hygrocybe, 2nd Rev., Svampetryk (2010), p 56. (2) R.Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), (3) S.Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 276. (4) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Württembergs, Band 3, Ulmer (2001), p 40.camera AmScope500
contributor's ID # Bot_676/2012_DSC5870 photo category: Fungi - fungi
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