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Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill., 1866 (a toadstool)

Date: 25 August 2001
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 25/08/2001[U]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: under Birch
Identification Notes: Spores: 8.5-9.5/6-7µm
Spore print: white, amyloid.
Veils with hyaline or pale brownish spheropedunculate cells 20-53µm diam, and branched, septate, unclamped, filamentous hyphae 3-6µm diam.

Images etc

magnified photograph Cap - extreme margin - magnified 382 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap centre - close-up 500 by 375 pixels
magnified photograph Cap centre - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap margin - close-up 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap 500 by 462 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - in situ - side view 500 by 482 pixels
naked eye photograph Gills - close-up 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Ring - close-up 375 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Ring - magnified 400 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Stipe base - close-up 375 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe surface - base - magnified 217 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe surface - just below ring - magnified 400 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe surface - top of ring - magnified 400 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe surface - upper stipe - magnified 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with spherocysts 500 by 485 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 32 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Veil fragments 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Veil fragments 500 by 400 pixels

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