Alloclavaria purpurea

Photo: Jioi Kovae

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Description

General: Simple purplish, fusiform fruit bodies, in mossy places in calcareous forests or in grassland; fasciculate and often clustered in large numbers.
Dimensions: 4-12cm tall x 0.2-0.7cm dia.
Fruit Body: Purple or purplish-lilac, sometimes discoloured greyish-purple or pallid brown with purplish tinge; rounded or somewhat compressed with fusiform tip and without distinct stem; flesh concolorous, hollow, fragile.
Spores: Hyaline, smooth, oblong ellipsoid, non-amyloid, 7- 9 x 3-4 µm . Basidia 4 spored; cystidia cylindrical or attenuated at the base.
Odour: Not distinctive.
Taste: Not distinctive.
Chemical Tests: None.
Occurrence: Autumn.
Action Required: Survey and monitoring; protection against habitat loss and degradation.

Statistics:

UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records

questionable data

Total records: 17

Earliest recording: 1873
Latest recording: 2000
Vice Counties and (frequency): 32(1); 34(2); 36(2); 54(1); 60(5); 64(2); 70(1); 76(2); 103(1)
Pre-1960: 5 records
Post-1960: 12 records
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