Hysterobrevium ‘red pigment’

Cook, ACT

Hysterobrevium ‘red pigment’ at Cook, ACT - 11 Jun 2017
Hysterobrevium ‘red pigment’ at Cook, ACT - 11 Jun 2017
Hysterobrevium ‘red pigment’ at Cook, ACT - 11 Jun 2017
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Hysterobrevium ‘red pigment’ 17 Jul 2017 Heino

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Heino wrote:
   18 Jul 2017
These were on a well-weathered wooden power pole. The inset in Photo 2 shows a close view of a fruit body and you see red colouring along the apical groove. A similar colouration is visible in a number of fruit bodies. At the top left in Photo 3 you see dull reddish-crimson pigment exuding from a fruit body that has ben placed in a drop of potassium hydroxide. In this exudate and the spore features (colour, size and shape) this specimen matches that of sighting http://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/3378766, but in the latter I didn’t notice such a red colour in the groove. However, the apical grooves in the latter were more tightly closed. The red colour in the apical groove suggests the genus Rhytidhysteron.

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  • 16 - 100 Abundance
  • 11 Jun 2017 12:00 AM Recorded on
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