Plancia ëd Flammulina velutipes (Curtis) Singer 1951

Descrission:

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 druba Celovec (2002), p32. (5) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 389. (6) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 3, Ulmer (2001), p245.