Phylum: Ascomycota Class: Ascomycetes
Order: Pezizales Family: Pyronemataceae
Species: Octospora humosa (Fr.) Dennis
Synonyms: Humaria humosa
Humaria ignea
Humaria leucolomoides
Common Name:
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Octospora humosaPhotographer: © Roy Anderson
Photographer: © Roy Anderson

Photographer: © Roy Anderson Photographer: © Roy Anderson Photographer: © Roy Anderson
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Campylopus subulatus (2)
Polytrichum piliferum (2)
Pogonatum urnigerum (1)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Acid grassland (2)
Heathland (2)
Montane heath/dwarf forb (2)
Heathland: wet dwarf shrub heath, upland (1)
Heathland: wet heath/acid grassland mosaic, upland (1)
Sand-dune: dune heath (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Soil Mossy (4)
Soil bare (2)
Months recorded in & number of records:
January (2)
October (1)
November (7)
December (2)