Mycorrhizal Database

SOU

Morphology

4

Unbranched

Mantle white, reflective, squishy, cottony

Emanting hyphae aseptate

OM: net prosenchyma

20

Monopodial, unbranched

Mantle tan to white, finely grainy, matte, very squishy, not well differentiated

OM: net prosenchyma

31

Irregular to unbranched

Mantle white, smooth, matte to shiny

OM/IM: regular synenchyma 7 x 7 µm

35

Irregular

Mantle white iridescent with patches of tan, felty, reflective

Emanating septate hyphae 4 µm thick, bent and branching

OM: felt prosenchyma 4 µm thick

IM: net prosenchyma

39

Unbranched to irregular

Mantle cream tan, reflective white patches, smooth to finely grainy

Emanating aseptate hyphae 3 µm thick

OM: interlocking irregular synenchyma 3 x 6 µm

13

Irregularly branched to unbranched, bent

Mantle brown, to dark brown often with tan apices, smooth to finely grainy, thin

OM: regular synenchyma

IM: non-interlocking irregular synenchyma

2

Straight, monopodial to unbranched

Mantle brown with cream apices, smooth and shiny

OM/IM: regular synenchyma 6 x 10 µm

23

Unbranched or irregularly branched

Mantle brown, finely grainy, matte to shiny medium thickness, some with white apices

Cystidia, awn-shaped (aciculate) 50 x 3 µm, clear brown

OM/IM: regular synenchyma

30

38

Irregular branching

Mantle brown (red tone), finely grainy, shiny and reflective, very brittle

Boletus zelleri

OM: between net and interlocking irregular syenchyma 4 x 10 µm

IM: net synenchyma

9

 

unbranched to irregularly branched, straight

Mantle tan to light yellow, matte and grainy

 

Emanating, septate hyphae

OM: non-interlocking irregular synenchyma

1

Monopodial pinnate to unbranched, straight

Mantle orange, smooth to finely grainy, matte; sometimes with black aseptate hyphae encroaching

OM/IM: non-interlocking irregular synenchyma 5 x 8 µm

26

Unbranched to irregularly branched and bent to club shaped

Mantle yellow-orange, finely grainy, matte to shiny

Emanating, verrucose, curved, septate hyphae with rare clamp connections. Restricted point mycelial strands sometimes present

OM: net synenchyma 3 x 7 µm

IM: net prosenchyma to net synenchyma

10

Irregularly branched and bent

Mantle gray and white, smooth to felty, matte to slightly shiny

OM: net prosenchyma

32

Irregularly branched, wrapped around dead root

Mantle white, grey outer sheath, tan with darker Hartig net visible, felty , and matte

Emanating rare, aseptate

OM: net prosenchyma in parallel pattern like finger print, 4 x 10 µm

IM: net synenchyma 2 x 5 µm

14

Unbranched, straight Mantle gray iridescent, wooly, reflective

Emanating, septate hyphae, 4 µm wide with papillae, and rare H-shaped anastomoses. Loose-differentiated mycelial strands present with septa; clamp connections

OM: felt prosenchyma

8

Unbranched and bent

Mantle gray, white, shiny

Mycelial strands extensive loose-differentiated; emanating, septate, hyphae; clamp connections

OM: felt prosenchyma to net prosynchyma

22

Tips unbranched or irregular to coralloid.

Mantle brown with dense cottony hyphae, many tips with cream apices, some older tips pure brown. Most tips shiny but a few reflective.

Dense cottony emanating hyphae clear, thin, curved, 5 µm wide with septa; clamps. Mycelial strands developing from dense hyphae; clamp connections

OM: felt prosenchyma and net synenchyma

IM: net synenchyma 5 x 10 µm to non-interlocking irregular synenchyma

18

Unbranched, bent

Mantle brown (red), shiny, grainy,

Emanating septate hyphae; clamp connections

OM: net prosenchyma

25

Unbranched, straight

Mantle brown, shiny

Emanating septate hyphae, 5 µm wide with clamp connections, curved ; clamp connections

OM: non-interlocking irregular synenchyma 5 x 10 µm

27

Unbranched to irregularly branched, bent

Mantle brown, reflective, coarsely grainy, cottony

Abundant, emanating, cottony, forked, septate hyphae 4.5 µm wide

OM/IM: regular synenchyma cells 7 x 10 µm with thick walls regular synenchyma

34

Irregular branching

Mantle brown some with cream apices; smooth, shiny; mantle pattern visible in dissecting scope

Emanating hyphae branched, septate, 5-7 µm wide, clear, verrucose areas

OM: regular synenchyma with some non-interlocking irregular synenchyma shapes, thick hyphal walls

IM: regular synenchyma 10 x 10 µm thick walls

16

Unbranched and straight

Mantle brown, (red), finely grainy

Abundant aseptate hyphae and restricted point, differentiated, cream mycelial strands

OM: net prosenchyma cells 2.5 x 6 µm

IM: net synenchyma 3 x 4 µm.

17

Unbranched, club-shaped

Mantle orange-brown, smooth, shiny

29

Unbranched

Mantle brown, cottony, club-shaped, 1 mm

Emanating, aseptate hyphae with abundant forks

OM: regular synenchyma thick walled

IM: regular synenchyma

36

Unbranched and irregular branched

Mantle brown, wooly, shiny, thick

Aseptate emanating hyphae with few branches

OM: felt prosenchyma 2 µm wide

IM: net prosenchyma (vague star patterns)

3

Unbranched to branched, bent to club-shaped

Mantle black, grainy, matte, thick

Cenococcum geophilum

Emanating hyphae black, 5 µm thick, abundant, septa rare

OM/IM: net synenchyma with star-like pattern (radiating thick walled isodiametric cells 10-20 µm)

6

Bent, irregularly branched.

Mantle black, matte; smooth to finely grainy

Mycelial strands slightly differentiated sometimes present, aseptate, 10-50 µm wide.

OM: irregular synenchyma with star-like pattern; cells 3 x 13 µm.

21

Irregular and bent.

Mantle black, coarse grainy, matte, medium thickness

Tuber rufum

5

Unbranched to irregularly branched.

Mantle black (dark brown) warty, shiny

24

Bristle-like (aciculate) cystidia 3 x 30 um non-branched to branched to monopodial pinnate, tips bent to straight

7

Fusiform cystidia,staight, bent, unbranched and branched

Net prosenchymatan, grainy, amorphous, matte

11

Irregularly branched to unbranched, brown (red), finely grainy, shiny

OM: regular synenchyma cells 8 x 10 um

IM: interlocking irregular synenchyma, cystidia 5 x 275 µm

40

Young are white older are brown, yellow apices, and matte with cystidia, abundant aciculate cystidia, pyramidal to irregular branching

41

White, wooly, thick, 2mm long .3-.5 wide, big tip, abundant cystidia

37

Mantle red with abundant cystidia with crytalline structures on surface