Image of Handkea excipuliformis

Description:

Slo.: visoka pleivka - Syn.: Calvatia excipuliformis, Hankea excipuliformis - Habitat: A small opening in dense Corypus avellana bushes, unmaintained grassland, former pasture, almost flat terrain, calcareous ground, partly in shade, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 570 m (1.880 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comments: Growing in a small group of 5-6 fruitbodies in different stage of development, the largest fruitbodies diameter 5.5 cm, height 8 cm, smell indistinctive when young, unpleasant when old, SP brown, surface from white oac900 through yellows oac847/784 to dark ocher oac722. Gleba initially white, at the end dark brown (darker than oac769). - Spores spherical, warty. Dimensions (without warts): 4.9 (SD = 0.21) x 4.8 (SD = 0.26) micr., Q = 1.02 (SD = 0.03), n = 30. Motic B2-211A with Olympus NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Ref.: (1) S.Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 434. 4-6 dia. (2) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 2, Ulmer (2000), p 136. 4-6 dia. (3) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 304. 5 dia. (4) R.Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 328. 3,5-5,5 dia.