Hygrocybe puniceaScarlet Waxy CapSlo.: velika vlanicaDat.: Oct. 02. 2010Lat.: 46.03500 Long.: 13.88080Code: Bot_462/2010_IMG2577Habitat: In grass, unmaintained mountain pasture, flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun,exposed to direct rain, average precipitations 2.000-2.600 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevations 1.050 m (3,450 feet), Dinaric phytogeographical region.Substratum: soilPlace: Vojsko flats, southeast of Smodin farm house, Idrijsko, Slovenia EC Comments: Growing solitary, pileus diameter up to 50 mm (2 inch), SP white.Spore shape and dimensions: smooth, almond shaped, 8,3 (SD = 0,7) x 5,4 (SD = 0,5) micr., Q = 1,61 (SD = 0,12), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. Ref.:(1) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 114. (2) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 167. (3) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p106. (4) A. Poler, Veselo po gobe, Mohorjeva druba, Celovec (2002), p 330.(5) Personal communication with Mr. Bojan Rot,
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Hygrocybe acutoconica var. konradii (R. Haller Aar.) Boertm., syn.: Hygrocybe konradii R. Haller Aar. , Hygrocybe konradii var. pseudopersistens Bon, Hygrophorus acutoconicus f. japonicus Hongo, Hygrophorus subglobisporus P.D. Orton, Hygrocybe persistens var. konradii (R. Haller Aar.) Boertm.Konrad's WaxcapSlo.: Konradova vlanicaDat.: Oct. 21. 2016Lat.: 46.35788 Long.: 13.70155Code: Bot_1021/2016_DSC5962Habitat: in light mixed wood, close to its edge, Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies, Ostrya carpinifolia dominant trees; moderately inclined mountain slope, south aspect; skeletal, colluvial, calcareous ground; mostly in shade; relatively warm and dry place; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 555 m (1.820 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: soil.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, right bank of river Soa, above regional road Bovec- Vri near Matev farm house, Trenta 1, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC. Comments: First I thought I found another Hygrocybe conica which is frequent in Trenta valley. However, genus Hygrocybe and particularly H. conica (agg.) is difficult for determination. Taxonomy described by different authors differs widely. I keep with Boertmann (Ref.7). Species H. acutoconica differs from members of H. conica agg. by absence of fast and deep blackening of fruitbodies during handling and in time. Pilei photographed didn't blacken (or at least evidently much less than H. conica). H. acutoconica var. acutoconica has predominantly cylindrical, oblong and occasionally slightly constricted spores, which are. 5 - 6.5 microns wide (from 2-sterigmata basidia). Measured spores were evidently different - broadly elliptical, some elliptical and some subglobose. Their width was 7.4-7.9 microns (only 2-sterigmata basidia observed). Such spores correspond to Hygrocybe acutoconica var. konradii. According to Boertmann (2010) H. acutoconica var. acutoconica and H. acutoconica var. konradii are very similar and can be separated only by spore dimensions and shape. Pilei color og this find is unusual. It should 'normally' be yellow to reddish-yellow, however, Boertmann (2001) exceptionally allows also "... even entirely reddish".Two fruitbodies present; pilei diameter 35 and 32 mm (measured as is, not expanded), slightly viscid; stems 67 and 72 mm long, 6 and 7 mm in diameters, slightly viscid, with small diameter hollow central channel, fibrous; taste and smell indistinctive; not bruising black when handling, only after long time becoming somewhat darker and duller; SP abundant, whitish-yellowish, oac 899.Spores smooth. Dimensions: 9,6 [10,9 ; 11,4] 12,7 x 6,3 [7,4 ; 7,9] 8,9 microns; Q = 1,3 [1,4 ; 1,5] 1,7; N = 31; C = 95%; Me = 11,1 x 7,6 microns; Qe = 1,5. Gill's trama regular. All observed basidia 2-spored. Dimensions: 19.4 [24.6 ; 27.7] 33 x 5.3 [6.9 ; 7.9] 9.5 microns; Q = 2.6 [3.4 ; 3.8] 4.5; N = 19; C = 95%; Me = 26.2 x 7.4 microns; Qe = 3.6. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil (spores); NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400x (basidia), NEA 10x/0.25, magnification 100x (gill's trama), fresh material, in water. 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 with Mr. Andrej Piltaver, Institute for Systematic of Higher Fungi, Ljubljana. (2) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.3. Verlag Mykologia (1991), p 114. (3) E. Arnolds, Tribus Hygrocybeae in Bas et al. Flora Agaricina Neerlandica, Brookfield, Vol 2. (1990), pp70-111. (4) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 3., Ulmer (2001), p 51. (5) A. Poler, Veselo po gobe, Mohorjeva druba Celovec (2002) (in Slovenian), p 332. (6) D. Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 115. (7) D. Boertmann, Hygrocybe, 2nd Rev., Svampetryk (2010), p 165.(8) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 266. (9) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 76.
Hygrocybe chlorophanaGolden Waxy CapSlo.: obledela vlanicaDat.: Oct. 25. 2012Lat.: 46.33039 Long.: 13.68982Code: Bot_676/2012_DSC5856 Habitat: Open, unimproved grassland, sheep pasture; moderately northeast oriented mountain slope, calcareous ground, mostly sunny, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevation 640 m (2.100 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: soil. Place: Vrsnik valley, at the foot of Mt. rni vrh, 1.544 m (5.064 feet), above the road to Na skali village, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comments: growing in a small group of about 8 pilei; pileus diameter 3-6 cm, very slimy, stem up to 8 cm long, 5-9 mm in diameter, slimy too, some compressed with longitudinal grove; context yellow, fragile; SP white (oac900); taste and smell indistinctive.Spore dimensions: 8.3 (SD = 0.6) x 5.4 (SD = 0.4) micr., Q = 1.54 (SD = 0.09), n = 30. Olympus CH20, Olympus NEA 100x/1,25, oil, magnification 1.000 x, in water. Ref.:(1) D. Boertmann, Hygrocybe, 2nd Rev., Svampetryk (2010), p 150. 7,5-9/4-5,5 (2) S.Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 270. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 3, Ulmer (2001), p 43. (4) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 106.