date of photo Oct 15, 2013
latitude 46.36217 longitude 13.70148
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Lower Trenta valley, north of 'Na Melu' place, west of abandoned farmhouse 'Koc', Trenta 3, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: nageljnasta roža - syn.: Thelephora radiata, Holmskjoeld: Fries 1838 - Habitat: mixed wood edge, dominant Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica, at the foot of mountain scree slope overgrown with moss, lichens, grasses and small trees; calcareous ground; shallow, nutrients poor soil layer over rocks and coarse scree; limestone bedrock; under a young Picea abies; half shade and relatively warm southeast oriented place, exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 640 m (2.100 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil pockets with wood debris among rocks overgrown with moss. - Comments: Growing solitary with a few sporocarps; diameter about 1.5 cm and about 2 cm high; taste and smell indistinctive; flesh somewhat brittle and fibrous, SP faint, brown, oac832(?). - Spores irregularly elliptic and tuberculate. Dimensions: 7.9 (SD = 0.3) x 6.2 (SD = 0.4) micr., Q = 1.28 (SD = 0.11), n = 30. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJF - Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Württembergs, Band 1., Ulmer (2000), p394. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p580. (3) W. Rothmaler, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Vol.1, Niedere Pflanzen, Elsevier, 3.Auflage, (1994), p348. (4) E. Angus, B. Source, TheThelephoraceae of North America. I, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1914), p185. (5) E.J.H. Corner, A monograph of Thelephora (Basidiomycetes), Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia (1968), Vol. 27, p1, available at http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?Link=T&TableKey=14682616000000061&Rec=213&Fields=All (6) M.B. Ellis, J.P. Ellis, Fungi Without Gills (Hymenomycetes and Gasteromycetes): An Identification Handbook, Science, Springer (1990), p188. (7) http://www.mycoquebec.org/bas.php?l=r&nom=Thelephora%20caryophyllea%20/%20Th%C3%A9l%C3%A9phore%20en%20entonnoir&post=Thelephora&gro=9&tag=Thelephora%20caryophylleacontributor's ID # Bot_761/2013_DSC8741 photo category: Fungi - fungi
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