Strumpshaw Fen Mycological Survey 2023

Trichia species

LOCATION FOUND: 

Yew Grove Area

DATE FOUND: 

Day 25 – 21 January 2024

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These small, sessile sporangia grew on twigs and moss in a damp, boggy area.

They were bright yellow and sometimes merged into a larger mass of spores.

The cusps of the sporangia were honey-comb-like structures which were presumably the base out of which the spores left.

Some seemed to be parasitised by a white mould – perhaps the same kind we saw on Day 4 Stilbella byssiseda.

On Day 26: