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Mycena
(a genus of bonnet toadstools)
Mycena pseudocorticola
(a bonnet)
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Mycena pseudocorticola Kühner, 1938 (a bonnet)

Date: 2 October 2004
Location: West Cornwall, England
Voucher: 02/10/2004[R]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: Four fruitbodies on dead branch on Sallow 2m above ground in carr
Associated organism: on dead branch of Salix caprea
Identification Notes: Cap: floury, grey.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: globose, 9-11µm diam, smooth.
Cheilocystidia: broadly and densely lining gill edge, "en brosse", broadly clavate, often with inflated appendage, clamped at base.
Caulocystidia: in clusters, "en brosse", broadly clavate, 22-30/12-15µm, clamped.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - enlarged 500 by 465 pixels
naked eye photograph Side view showing cap - enlarged 361 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Side view showing gills - enlarged 366 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Basidia and cheilocystidia - highly magnified 500 by 494 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - magnified 41 Kb 360 by 475 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - magnified 295 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - magnified 435 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - highly magnified 451 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - highly magnified 367 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - highly magnified 436 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - highly magnified 397 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - highly magnified 500 by 483 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - highly magnified 500 by 354 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia in gill edge - highly magnified 500 by 316 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidium - highly magnified 344 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidium - highly magnified 37 Kb 345 by 461 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 437 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 367 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 321 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 490 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 25 Kb 331 by 316 pixels

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