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Flammulina velutipes
Flammulina velutipes
Winter Mushroom
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 0112 1870 (2012-01-23)

Copyright © 2012 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Dec 11, 2011
  • latitude 46.33440   longitude 13.59756     View on Google Maps.
  • location   East Bovec basin, left shore of river Soèa downstream of Kršovec farm house, East Julian Alps (Posoèje, Slovenia)
  • notes   Slo.: zimska panjevka - Habitat: Mainly broadleaf forest next to river bed, locally flat terrain but in a short gorge, calcareous bedrock, very humid place with several springs, mostly in shade, no sun during winter months, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 410 m (1.350 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: fallen thick Salix sp. trunk covered by mosses, partly rotten. - Comments: Spore print as well as habitat fit well to Flammulina velutipes f. longispora Bas, Persoonia 12(1): 62 (1983). This form is not (yet?) accepted by Index Fungorum however it is discribed in Ref (5). and Ref.(6). from where spore dimensions have been taken for this form. Growing in small groups and solitary, several fruitbodies; pileus diameter up to 6 cm (2.3 inch), sticky cap; SP white. - Spore dimensions: 9.3 (SD = 0.6) x 3.5 (SD = 0.3) micr., Q = 2.7 (SD = 0.18), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. Congo Red. - Ref.: (1) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 220. (2) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 170. (3) R.Lueder, Grundkurs Pilzbestimmung, Quelle & Meyer (2008), p 388. (4) A.Poler, Veselo po gobe (in Slovene), Mohorjeva družba Celovec (2002), p32. (5) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 389. (6) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Württembergs, Band 3, Ulmer (2001), p245.
  • camera   Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_581/2011_IMG8137
  • photo category: Fungi - fungi

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  • common names   Winter Mushroom, Velvet Stem (photographer)
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