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Hygrocybe chlorophana (Fr.) Wünsche, 1877 (Golden Waxcap)

Date: 13 October 2006
Location: Derby, England
Voucher: 13/10/2006[H]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on medium length, fine-leaved acid grassland
Identification Notes: Cap: yellow, sticky, pellucid-striate.
Gills: pale.
Stipe: dry, fibrillose.

Gill trama: long cylindric thin-walled cells (with some unusual slightly thicker walled, round-ended, sinuous hyphae also in the gills)
Spores: broadly ellipsoid, oblong or amygdaliform, not waisted, (6)7.5-8(9)/4.5-6µm.
Photo Summary: Fruitbody on pale background

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - close-up - pale background 500 by 426 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - lain down showing gills and stipe - pale background 500 by 227 pixels
naked eye photograph Gills - close-up - pale background 500 by 407 pixels
naked eye photograph Stipe - close-up - pale background - enlarged 500 by 254 pixels
naked eye photograph Stipe - split where handled - close-up - pale background - enlarged 500 by 248 pixels
microscope photograph Gill trama squash - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Gill trama squash - magnified 500 by 334 pixels

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