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AGARICOMYCETIDAE
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AGARICALES
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TRICHOLOMATACEAE
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Collybia
(a genus of toadstools)
Collybia fuscopurpurea
(a toadstool)
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Collybia fuscopurpurea (Pers.) P. Kumm., 1871 (a toadstool)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 29 October 2001
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 29/10/2001[A]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on bark chippings on flower beds
Identification Notes: Note: This fungus has only appeared in recent years and its precise identity has not yet been determined. Nevertheless it is now a widespread weed species on wood chip.

Cap: soon plane, dry, hygrophanous;
Stipe: pilose to full length, almost shaggy at the apex.
Gills: remote (with broad collar), crowded, narrow.
Smell: leathery.
Spore print: "C", non-amyloid;
Gill edge: sterile, eroded, with abundant projecting cheilocystidia.
Basidia: clamped at base
Spores: 8-9/4-5µm.
Cap cuticle: pale fulvous but turning pale hazel in KOH; clamped, septate pale brown hyphae with zebrate encrusting pigment; lines of granules along the hyphae are the remains of spores.
Cheilocystidia: hyaline, irregular, coming away in KOH in groups still attached to branched hyphae.

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magnified photograph Cap - enlarged 453 by 500 pixels
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naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - dry - top view 500 by 463 pixels
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naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - in situ - top view 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - young - in situ - top view 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - young - in situ - top view 500 by 375 pixels
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magnified photograph Stipe - enlarged 41 Kb 273 by 463 pixels
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microscope photograph Cap cuticle 500 by 400 pixels
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microscope photograph Caulocystidia 400 by 500 pixels
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microscope photograph Cheilocystidia with attached hyphae 500 by 358 pixels
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microscope photograph Degenerating spores in cap cuticle 39 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
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