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Agaricus langei
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Agaricus langei (F.H. Møller) F.H. Møller, 1952 (Scaly Wood Mushroom)

Date: 31 October 2005
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 31/10/2005[E]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: in grassland, perhaps around old cow pats
Identification Notes: Cap: brown innately fibrillose, thick-fleshed (12.5mm in cap just breaking, 11mm in older cap).
Gills: narrowly white-edged.
Ring: thick, smooth below, breaking into teeth at margin; slightly striate near stipe, above.
Flesh: white, reddening when touched and on cutting.
Cap flesh + KOH: no change.
Spore print: BFF: "cigar brown"

Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: 7-9/4.5µm, quite mixed in size.
Cheilocystidia: clustered, hyaline, clavate cells, up to 35/20µm, not in chains.
Cap cuticle: skeins of filamentous hyphae, 3-8µm diam., septate, but hardly exppanded, with brown vacuolar pigment.
Photo Summary: Fruitbodies: in situ, lain down, LS, ring, cap cuticle, gill edge with cheilocystidia, spores

Images etc

naked eye photograph Collection 500 by 329 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - LS 307 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - mature - lain down to show stipe, ring etc 364 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - oblique view - in situ 500 by 477 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - top view - in situ 500 by 451 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - young - lain down - side view 306 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Ring (following day) - close-up 500 by 332 pixels
naked eye photograph Ring - young, before it breaks - close-up 500 by 332 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle (scalp) - arranged naturally - magnified 500 by 434 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle (scalp) - jumbled around during preparation - magnified 500 by 381 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 299 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 305 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 219 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 219 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 250 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 216 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with narrow cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 204 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with narrow cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 197 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 470 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 34 Kb 462 by 408 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 34 Kb 428 by 330 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 378 pixels

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