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Entoloma (Fr.) P. Kumm., 1871 (pinkgills)

Date: 2 October 2004
Location: West Cornwall, England
Voucher: 02/10/2004[F]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on Grey Sallow leaves under Alder in Alder carr
Identification Notes: A small pale brown Lyophyllum-like Entoloma growing in Alder carr.

Cap: pale brown, slightly depressed, margin incurved, weakly translucent-striate, weakly radially rugulose.
Gills: concave subdeucrrent, pale grey, edge concolorous.
Stipe: pale brown (paler than cap), tapering upwards, wavy-bulgy, subpolished.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: elongate, with suprahilar depression, rounded corners, (9/6, 7.5/6, 7.5/, 8/, 9/) 7.5-9/6µm (even fewer than usual resting the right way round for measuring!)
Cheilocystidia: absent.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - enlarged 500 by 461 pixels
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microscope photograph Spore - highly magnified 11 Kb 204 by 190 pixels
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microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 405 by 500 pixels

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