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Mycena epipterygia (Scop.) Gray, 1821 (Yellowleg Bonnet)

Date: 3 November 1998
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 03/11/1998[B]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on debris under Gorse bush
Associated organism: under bush on debris of Ulex europeaus
Identification Notes: Spores: 9.5-12/5.5-7.5µm, with 1 or 2 oil droplets.
Spore print: B, amyloid.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Cheilocystidia: coralloid, thin-walled at ends of long thin-walled clamped hyphae, embedded in gelatinous strand running along gill edge.

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microscope photograph Thin-walled hyphae in mucilage strand 21 Kb 320 by 240 pixels

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