BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Conocybe pubescens (Gillet) Kühner, 1935 (a conecap)
| Date: | 1 October 2004 |
| Location: | West Cornwall, England |
| Voucher: | 01/10/2004[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Fruitbody |
| Record Summary: | Single fruitbody in field |
| Associated organism: | among live plants of Poaceae |
| Identification Notes: | Specimen wet after rain. Stem: bulbous base Cap: without visible hairs. Basidia: 4-spored. Spores: enormous, ellipsoid, 15-18/9-10µm, smooth, with germ pore 2µm diam. Gill edge: with lecythiform cheilocystidia. Stipe: with capitate cells and hairs. |
Images etc
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Cap - enlarged | 399 by 500 pixels | ||
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In situ (after rain!) | 234 by 500 pixels | ||
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Side view - laid down | 500 by 211 pixels | ||
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Spore - germ pore - highly magnified | 9 Kb | 176 by 210 pixels | |
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Spores - magnified | 500 by 496 pixels | ||
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Spores - magnified | 500 by 381 pixels | ||
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Spores - highly magnified | 500 by 447 pixels | ||
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Spores - highly magnified | 500 by 359 pixels | ||
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Spores - highly magnified | 500 by 387 pixels |
