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Coprinopsis pseudonivea (an inkcap)

Date: 30 September 1999
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 30/09/1999[K]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on old Cow dung
Associated organism: on old dung of Bos
Identification Notes: Superficial scales around cap margin with septate, cylindric, slightly encrusted hyphae.
Cap covered with "clay pink" slightly ornamented spherocysts.
Stipe: shaggy, no spherocysts
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: 12.8/10.25/7.7µm lentiform, almost round in face view, ellipsoid in side view.

Images etc

magnified photograph Cap surface - close-up showing superficial scales 53 Kb 431 by 378 pixels
magnified photograph Cap 32 Kb 403 by 411 pixels
magnified photograph Cap 40 Kb 469 by 415 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies 29 Kb 456 by 395 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies 500 by 442 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe 23 Kb 237 by 452 pixels
microscope photograph Hyphae and spherocysts from superficial scale on cap 500 by 358 pixels
microscope photograph Hyphae and spherocysts from superficial scale on cap 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Hyphae and spherocysts from superficial scale on cap 36 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Spherocysts - close-up showing surface ornamentation 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Spherocysts 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Spherocysts 28 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Spherocysts 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - green filter 11 Kb 325 by 222 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 28 Kb 432 by 309 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 43 Kb 499 by 427 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 43 Kb 499 by 430 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 16 Kb 250 by 215 pixels

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