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Amanita
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Amanita excelsa
(a toadstool)
Amanita excelsa var. spissa
(Grey Spotted Amanita)
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Amanita excelsa var. spissa (Fr.) Neville & Poumerat, 2004 (Grey Spotted Amanita)

Date: 20 September 2005
Location: North Hampshire, England
Voucher: 20/09/2005[C]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: Under Pine, oak nearby
Identification Notes: Smell: weakly radish on cutting.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spore print: white to BFF "B", strongly amyloid.
Spores: broadly ellipsoid, some with single oil droplet, 9-10/6-7.5µm.
Cheilocystidia: globose, smooth, abundant.
Universal veil fragments: with cylindric hyphae and sphaerocysts
Photo Summary: toadstool: in situ, lain down, LS, cheilocystidia, spores, spores on basidia in gill face, universal veil structure

Images etc

naked eye photograph Fruitbody - lain down to show gills 450 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - lain down to show gills 474 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - LS 454 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - side view - in situ 500 by 418 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - top view - in situ 500 by 443 pixels
naked eye photograph Ring - close-up 500 by 304 pixels
naked eye photograph Scales on cap centre - close-up 500 by 332 pixels
naked eye photograph Scales on cap margin - close-up 500 by 332 pixels
naked eye photograph Scales on cap margin - close-up 500 by 332 pixels
naked eye photograph Spore print - scraped with Melzer's Iodine 500 by 364 pixels
naked eye photograph Spore print - scraped 500 by 217 pixels
naked eye photograph Spore print on microscope slide 500 by 228 pixels
naked eye photograph Stipe - close-up 342 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 498 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 297 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 404 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 417 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 481 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 485 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 458 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 458 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 409 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 409 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 470 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 470 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 270 pixels
microscope photograph Spores on basidia - magnified 500 by 441 pixels
microscope photograph Universal veil fragment from cap - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Universal veil fragment from cap - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Universal veil fragment from cap - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Universal veil fragment from cap - squash prep - magnified 500 by 455 pixels

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