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Conocybe
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Conocybe mesospora
(a conecap)
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Conocybe mesospora Kühner ex Watling, 1980 (a conecap)

Date: 10 October 2004
Location: West Kent, England
Voucher: 10/10/2004[E]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: amongst grass
Associated organism: among live plants of Poaceae
Identification Notes: Veil: absent.
Cap cuticle: cellular.
Stipe: cystidiate over whole length but lacking hairs.
Caulocystidia: lecythiform.
Cheilocystidia: lecythiform, head 4-5µm diam.
Basidia: 4-spored
Spores: ellipsoid, 7.7-10/5µm with germ pore.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - dry - in situ 500 by 405 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap - half-moist - in situ 493 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Side view - in situ 305 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Side views 500 by 353 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - in gill edge - magnified 500 by 150 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge - dry - showing lecythiform cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 205 pixels
microscope photograph Gill surface - dry - showing 4-spored basidia - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 484 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 464 pixels

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