BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Lepista saeva (Fr.) P.D. Orton, 1960 (Field Blewits, Blue Leg)

Date: 17 October 2004
Location: Cambridge, England
Voucher: 17/10/2004[L]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: 7 fruitbodies, in grass under Apple trees
Associated organism: under live tree of Malus
Identification Notes: Spore print: BFF "clay pink", brown in Melzer's Iodine but not dextrinoid as spores not coloured under microscope.
Spores: ellipsoid, rough on outline under x40, 7-8.5/4.5-5µm.

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naked eye photograph Cap - close-up 500 by 490 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap - in situ 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap and side view 500 by 295 pixels
naked eye photograph LS 500 by 450 pixels
naked eye photograph Oblique view - in situ 500 by 388 pixels
naked eye photograph Side view 500 by 383 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 443 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 488 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 493 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 447 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 25 Kb 353 by 236 pixels

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