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Conocybe pubescens
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Conocybe pubescens (Gillet) Kühner, 1935 (a conecap)

Date: 22 April 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 22/04/2000[J]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on soil beside stable manure heap
Associated organism: beside heaped dung of Equus
Identification Notes: Cap with hairs.
Stipe with hairs and a few capitate cystidia.
Smell: spermatic.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: 12.5-16.5/7.5-9µm, yellowish brown with germ pore.
Cheilocystidia: lecythiform with heads c. 5µm

Images etc

magnified photograph Cap - side view 339 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Cap - side view 367 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Cap - side view 500 by 489 pixels
magnified photograph Cap - side view 25 Kb 338 by 450 pixels
magnified photograph Cap - underside 26 Kb 317 by 348 pixels
magnified photograph Cap surface - profile - close-up 24 Kb 456 by 263 pixels
magnified photograph Cap surface - profile - close-up 500 by 38 pixels
naked eye photograph Caps 489 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies 301 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies 14 Kb 193 by 494 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies 196 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph In situ 407 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe - close-up 5 Kb 98 by 356 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe surface - close-up - highly enlarged 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Basidiospores - highly magnified 500 by 366 pixels
microscope photograph Basidium - magnified 16 Kb 213 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia and hairs - magnified 73 Kb 449 by 409 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia and hairs - magnified 500 by 266 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia and hairs - magnified 50 Kb 426 by 385 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia and hairs - magnified 500 by 418 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia and hairs on stipe - magnified 500 by 262 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia on gill edge - magnified 500 by 217 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia on gill edge - magnified 500 by 297 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia on gill edge - magnified 500 by 181 pixels

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