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Agrocybe erebia (Fr.) Singer, 1939 (Dark Fieldcap)

Date: 10 October 2004
Location: West Kent, England
Voucher: 10/10/2004[T]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: 13 fruitbodies in 4 clumps on buried ?Cherry stick in grass
Associated organism: on buried, dead stick of Prunus?
Identification Notes: Cap: zoned when half dry, margin moist and pellucid striate, viscid, without veil remnants.
Ring: membranous, pale brownish, not noticeably striate above.
Basidia: 2-spored.
Spores: 10.5-12.5(14.5)/5.5-6µm narrowly ellipsoid-amygdaliform, but slightly conically extended at the tip, without germ pore.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - close-up 500 by 467 pixels
naked eye photograph Caps - in situ 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Side view - in situ - close-up 500 by 434 pixels
naked eye photograph Side view - in situ 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Side views - close-up 498 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Side views 500 by 320 pixels
microscope photograph Gill face showing 2-spored basidia - magnified 500 by 391 pixels
microscope photograph Gill face showing 2-spored basidia - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 483 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 477 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 312 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 491 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 464 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 484 pixels

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