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Collybia maculata (Alb. & Schwein.) P. Kumm., 1871 (Spotted Toughshank)

Date: 26 August 2002
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 26/08/2002[A]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: growing among Heather and birch
Identification Notes: Among Calluna vulgaris near small Betula spp.
Smell: sweet, spicey.
Taste: slightly bitter.
Spore print: pinkish "F" (=pale pinkish "buff"), dextrinoid.
Cap: whiteish developing "cinnamon" tones.
Spores: subspherical to lacrymiform, with single large oil drops.
No thick-walled resting spores seen in print.
Basidia: with basal clamps.
Gill trama of clamped cylindric hyphae.

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