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Tectella patellaris
Veiled Oyster
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0912 1565 (2012-09-30)Copyright © 2012 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Jan 2, 2012
latitude 46.31298 longitude 13.56462
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location
Bovec basin, near the entrance of Slatenek gorge, left bank of Slatenek stream, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: zastrta pogačica - Habitat: Narrow mountain gorge, near a stream, locally flat terrain, calcareous ground with some cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) inclusions, broadleaf trees and thickets and high bushes, humid and cold place, in shadow, no sun during most of the year; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 430 m (1.400 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: dead fallen Corylus avellana branch, not in contact with ground, about 5 cm (2 inch) in diameter. - Comments: Photographed in wet conditions. Found on the same branch: Plicaturopsis crispa, Hypoxylon fuscum, Graphis scripta and Fungi sp. causing distinct red staining of the wood (oac 586). Possibly pyrenomycetes? Sillia ferruginea or Cryptospora corylina or Massariosphaeria rubicunda or ?? (personal communication with Gerhard Koller, see observation 84928). Interestingly, the same situation was fond in my first observation of Tectella patellaris. Fruitbodies were growing in groups, more than 30 of them on the branch; fruitbodies in different stage of development from very young to fairly old; pileus diameter 5 - 25 mm (1/5 to 1 inch), smell indistinctive, SP white. Weather conditions during observation: rainy, frozen vegetation and ground, temperatures about 0 degC ( 32 degF). - Spores small, smooth, cylindrical, somewhat allantoids. Dimensions: 4.3 (SD = 0.3) x 1.3 (SD = 0.1) micr., Q = 3.42 (SD = 0.37), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water.camera Nikon D700 / Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_586/2012_DSC2104 photo category: Fungi - fungi
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Veiled Oyster (photographer)
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