Discina-perlata_6
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Discina perlata (Fr.: Fr.) Fr., syn.: Gyromitra perlata (Fr.: Fr.) Harm., Gyromitra ancilis (pers. ex Fr.) KreiselPig's Ears, DE.: Schildfrmige LorchelSlo.: iroki hrekDat.: March 11. 2016Lat.: 46.36118 Long.: 13.70172Code: Bot_936/2016_DSC0518Habitat: grassland, pasture, moderately southeast inclined mountain slope at the foot of a mountain; shallow, skeletal, calcareous soil; old overgrown colluvial ground; dry and sunny place, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 630 m (2.070 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: small Picea abies stump, almost totally decomposed.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, right bank of river Soa, 'Na Melu' place, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comments: This is a very young not yet mature pileus. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 14 mm, stipe 3 mm long and 5 mm in diameter; very gelatinous, specially hymenium; smell none; no SP; neither mature asci nor spores seen. Discina perlata is an early spring lignicolous species growing almost exclusively on Picea abies. When mature it can have over ten cm in diameter.Olympus CH20, NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400x (hymenium, context, mycelia), in water; fresh material. AmScope MA500 digital camera.Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJFRef.:(1) Personal communication. Id'ed by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, Tolmin.(2) G. Medardi, Atlante fotografico degli Ascomiceti d'Italia, A.M.B. Centro Studi Micologici (2012) (in Italian with English keys), p 53.(3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.1. Verlag Mykologia (1984), p 64. (4) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 40.(5) W. Rothmaler, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Vol.1, Niedere Pflanzen, Elsevier,
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- Ascomycota (sac fungi)
- Pezizomycetes
- Pezizales
- Discinaceae
- Discina
- Discina ancilis
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