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| synonyms: Schwarze Lorchel |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Black or blackish |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Other |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass) |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows on the ground |
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Leptopodia atra (König ex Fr.) Boud. Schwarze Lorchel. Cup 1.5–3cm high, folded back on itself into a twisted flattened dark-brown to blackish disc shape, with paler light grey underside. Stem 30–65 x 3–7mm, pallid clay colour, concolorous with cap or darker, slightly twisted, tough and full of white pith. Asci 250 x 15µ. Spores broadly elliptical, 17–18 x 11–12µ. Habitat mixed woodland. Season summer to autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown. Distribution, America and Europe. |
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