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Lycoperdon excipuliforme
Lycoperdon excipuliforme
Pestle Puffball
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 1116 1943 (2016-11-19)

Copyright © 2016 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Nov 2, 2016
  • latitude 46.35801   longitude 13.70269     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, right bank of river Soča, above regional road Bovec - Vršič near Matevž farm house, Trenta 1; East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)
  • notes   Slo.: visoka plešivka, visoka prašnica - syn: Clavatia saccata (Vahl ex SCHurn.) Morgan, Calvatia excipuliformis, Hankea excipuliformis - Habitat: edge of light mixed wood, Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies, Ostrya carpinifolia dominant trees; moderately inclined mountain slope, south aspect; skeletal, colluvial, calcareous ground; quite sunny place; relatively warm and dry place; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 555 m (1.820 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comments: Lycoperdon excipuliforme is easy to recognize when old by the fact that its characteristically spongy stem remains standing long after all the rest decays and disappears. Fig. 28 shows what remained of the fruitbody after two days of heavy rain (360 mm of rain in less than 48 hours!). Growing solitary; diameter of the 'head' 4.5 cm; stipe 8 cm long and 3 cm in diameter; smell indistinctive when young, when old unpleasantly stinking, also when dry; SP brown, oac638. Spores warty. Dimensions: 4,7 [5,2 ; 5,3] 5,7 x 4,5 [4,9 ; 5,1] 5,6 microns; Q = [1 ; 1,06] 1,1; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 5,2 x 5 microns; Qe = 1. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, fresh material, 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) S.Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 434. (2) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Württembergs, Band 2, Ulmer (2000), p 136. (3) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 304. (4) R.Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 328. (5 J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.2. Verlag Mykologia (1986), p 388.
  • camera   Nikon D700/Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_1024/2016_DSC6341
  • photo category: Fungi - fungi

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  • common names   Pestle Puffball (photographer)
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