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(spore droppers)
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Panaeolus
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Panaeolus semiovatus
(Egghead Mottlegill)
Panaeolus semiovatus var. semiovatus
(Egghead Mottlegill)
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Panaeolus semiovatus var. semiovatus (Sowerby) S. Lundell, 1938 (Egghead Mottlegill)

Date: 22 April 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 22/04/2000[H]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on stable manure heap
Associated organism: on heaped dung of Equus
Identification Notes: Spore print: black
Spores: 17-21/9.5-11.5µm
Basidia: 4-spored.
Gill edge with abundant lageniform cheilocystidia, occasionally forked at tip.
Chrysocystidia numerous around gill edge, but less frequent on face of gill.
Pleurocystidia clavate, numerous (unless these were basidiomes)
Caulocystidia resemble cheilocystidia but longer and often with two arms at the tip.

Images etc

magnified photograph Cap - LS 30 Kb 371 by 376 pixels
magnified photograph Cap - LS 259 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Cap - underside 500 by 440 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - black background 31 Kb 332 by 428 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - grey background 383 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - side view 459 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - LS 151 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Gill surface and edge - close-up 47 Kb 426 by 293 pixels
magnified photograph Gill surface and edge - close-up 500 by 344 pixels
magnified photograph Gills 43 Kb 397 by 363 pixels
naked eye photograph In situ - close-up 407 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph In situ 500 by 213 pixels
magnified photograph Ring - close-up 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Basidia 390 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores 42 Kb 433 by 407 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia 500 by 476 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia 68 Kb 418 by 409 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia 500 by 359 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia 500 by 425 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia 500 by 420 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia and chrysocystidium 500 by 394 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia with two chrysocystidia 500 by 299 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia 500 by 346 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia 500 by 252 pixels
microscope photograph Chrysocystidium near gill edge 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Chrysocystidium near gill edge 500 by 376 pixels
microscope photograph Chrysocystidum (R) and basidium (L) 66 Kb 445 by 383 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidia 53 Kb 496 by 273 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidia 500 by 400 pixels

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