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Agrocybe pediades
(Common Fieldcap)
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Agrocybe pediades (Fr.) Fayod, 1889 (Common Fieldcap)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 5 October 1998
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 05/10/1998[N]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: in mown species-rich grassland
Identification Notes: (Old specimens)
Cap: almost plane, dirty brown drying pale yellowish buff.
Stipe: hollow, like a drinking straw; snaps cleanly.
Cheilocystidia: clavate to utriform, 56/14µm.
Cap cuticle: cellular.
Spores: 8-10/5-6µm.
Second collection had spores up to 12µm.

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microscope photograph Spores 20 Kb 370 by 323 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 28 Kb 427 by 341 pixels

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