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Hydropus floccipes
(a toadstool)
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Hydropus floccipes (Fr.) Singer, 1962 (a toadstool)

Date: 14 October 1998
Location: South Hampshire, England
Voucher: 14/10/1998[E]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on moss-covered fallen Oak log
Associated organism: on moss-covered fallen log of Quercus
Identification Notes: Gills: quite tough.
Stipe: rooting.
Smell: slightly fruity on cutting.
Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Spores: spherical, 6-7µm diam (excluding apiculus).
Basidia: 4-spored.
Pleurocystidia: abundant, fusiform.
Cheilocystidia: lageniform.
Caulocystidia: vermiform to lageniform with dark contents, clamped at base.
Pileicystidia: hyaline, cylindric-capitate, elbowed, clamped, on a radially filamentous cuticle c. 6µm diam.
A second log nearby had similar fruitbodies, but with caps splitting and turned up towards margin.

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magnified photograph Cap - LS 22 Kb 446 by 416 pixels
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magnified photograph Cap 10 Kb 272 by 235 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - undersides 17 Kb 234 by 360 pixels
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magnified photograph Fruitbody - LS 7 Kb 152 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - young 8 Kb 142 by 370 pixels
magnified photograph Gills 37 Kb 383 by 386 pixels
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magnified photograph Stipe - close-up 8 Kb 93 by 393 pixels
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magnified photograph Stipe 7 Kb 89 by 411 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe 121 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia 21 Kb 240 by 320 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia 20 Kb 240 by 320 pixels
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microscope photograph Caulocystidia 6 Kb 128 by 190 pixels
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microscope photograph Caulocystidium 5 Kb 172 by 108 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia 6 Kb 85 by 176 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidium 6 Kb 112 by 133 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidium 2 Kb 53 by 109 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidium 3 Kb 61 by 149 pixels
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microscope photograph Cheilocystidium 2 Kb 108 by 46 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidium 2 Kb 112 by 45 pixels
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microscope photograph Gills - TS 14 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Pileicystidia 10 Kb 170 by 190 pixels
microscope photograph Pileicystidia 8 Kb 188 by 140 pixels
microscope photograph Pileicystidium 6 Kb 177 by 110 pixels
microscope photograph Pileicystidium 7 Kb 183 by 157 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidia 18 Kb 292 by 165 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidium 4 Kb 97 by 149 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidium 4 Kb 109 by 161 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidium 4 Kb 97 by 128 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 10 Kb 281 by 165 pixels

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