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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2025
The large bracket-fungus, found in quantity at this site, is identified as Fomes fomentarius (Fr.) Kickx
The species has also been reported in the Danish post-glacial.
The Flixton specimens were identified from their microscopic structure and by comparison with recently collected specimens. The species is trimitic, having three kinds of hyphae in the fruit-body, namely skeletal, binding and generative hyphae. The thin-walled generative hyphae are clamped at the septa. The Flixton specimens had the thick-walled skeletal and binding hyphae well-preserved, almost as well as in living specimens, but the thin-walled hyphae, and also the spores and basidia, had disappeared. Nevertheless, at the bases or origins of the skeletal hyphae, there could clearly be seen the characteristic mark of insertion of a generative hypha with clamps. Macroscopically, the Flixton specimens showed the applanate, then ungulate, shape typical of the species and the thick, subcarbonaceous, crust on the upperside. Hence, there can be absolutely no doubt of the identity of the specimens.
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