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Inocybe
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Inocybium
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Inocybe posterula
(a toadstool)
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Inocybe posterula (Britzelm.) Sacc., 1887 (a toadstool)

Date: 16 October 2002
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 16/10/2002[E]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: among brambles under birch
Identification Notes: Stipe: entirely pruinose, with basal bulb.
Smell: spermatic.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: narrowly amygdaliform, 8-9.5/4.5-5µm.
Gill edge: with thick-walled, narrowly fusiform, crystal-tipped, metuloid cheilocystidia, 60-67/12.5-17µm, plus clavate paracystidia.
Pleurocystidia: 60-70/13-15.5µm, metuloid, crystal-tipped, clamped at the base.
Cystidia slowly becoming yellow in ammonia.Caulocystida in upper stipe: similar, more cylindric, mixed with clavate cells.
Lower stipe with clamped, hyaline, cylindric hyphae 2-8µm diam with occasional clavate or long cylindric cell but these thin-walled.

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naked eye photograph Cap - enlarged 451 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap - young 34 Kb 271 by 369 pixels
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naked eye photograph Collection 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies 500 by 342 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - side view 271 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - side view 246 by 500 pixels
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naked eye photograph Fruitbody - side view 323 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Gills 500 by 488 pixels
naked eye photograph Old cap - in situ 500 by 470 pixels
naked eye photograph Old cap - top view 500 by 489 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe - apex - magnified 500 by 371 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe - base - magnified 500 by 389 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia from upper stipe - magnified 500 by 337 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia from upper stipe - magnified 500 by 416 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia from upper stipe - magnified 500 by 389 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 39 Kb 368 by 440 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystium on gill edge - magnified 500 by 292 pixels
microscope photograph Clamped hyaline filamentous hyphae from base of stipe - magnified 500 by 411 pixels
microscope photograph Clamped hyaline filamentous hyphae from base of stipe - magnified 500 by 332 pixels
microscope photograph Clamped hyaline filamentous hyphae from base of stipe - magnified 500 by 332 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidia - clamped at base - magnified 500 by 271 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 398 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 377 pixels

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