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Panellus
(a genus of oysterling toadstools)
Panellus serotinus
(Olive Oysterling)
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Panellus serotinus (Pers.) Kühner, 1950 (Olive Oysterling)

Date: 20 December 1998
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 20/12/1998[B]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on fallen Gean
Associated organism: on fallen trunk of Prunus avium
Identification Notes: Spore print: white, strongly amyloid.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: 3-6/1µm, acicular, curved.
Pileocystidia: very abundant, clamped at base, clavate, with violet vacuolar pigment.
Caulocystidia: similar, often agglutinated.
Pleurocystidia: abundant, clavate, with yellow-brown contents.
Cheilocystidia: smaller, lining gill edge, hyaline, often encrusted.

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magnified photograph Gills and stipe 38 Kb 394 by 397 pixels
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microscope photograph Cheilocystidia 36 Kb 391 by 348 pixels
microscope photograph Cluster of caulocystidia 26 Kb 427 by 320 pixels
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microscope photograph Pileocystidia in scalp 33 Kb 427 by 320 pixels
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microscope photograph Pleurocystidia protruding from gill surface 12 Kb 305 by 171 pixels
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microscope photograph Spores 24 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
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