Can anyone recommend literature for identifying British Clavulinopsis, please? Is helveola the only yellow one with warty spores?
John Bratton
Can anyone recommend literature for identifying British Clavulinopsis, please? Is helveola the only yellow one with warty spores?
John Bratton
I can’t help John. But I think you’d be better adding an Ob. (if you have a pic - though any pic would do) in the normal way and asking there, as there are not many people subscribing to the Forum.
Nice treatise here http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/clavulinopsis-fusiformis.php
PDFs here http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/library/keys/index-phpcid95/
I don’t have a photo to post. In the Good Old Days we had a fungus forum and such questions would have got an answer and maybe a link to a pdf. Or am I imagining that?
Buczacki thinks it is, though C laeticolor has irregularly subspherical spores. Looking at the checklist, there don’t seem to be any obscure species to worry about. Could I ask how you get spores from these? I have specimens about 1mm diameter (and rather short as I didn’t notice them until I’d mowed the lawn!) which dry up in no time.
Thanks. I just left it lying on a microscope slide overnight and the spores were abundant, but my specimen was probably more mature. It was thicker than 1 mm.
John
Though not much thicker - I measured it last night at around 1.1 mm. But it has been drying since 15 Sept so may have been thicker when fresh.
There is a key to Clavulinopsis towards the end of this pdf. from the BMS website - http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/files/8413/3026/1210/BMS_KEYS_Part_2.pdf
Thanks very much. I’ve downloaded it. There is a Clavulina key there too, which I was also looking for.