BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Psathyrella spadiceogrisea (Schaeff.) G. Bertrand, 1913 (Spring Brittlestem)
| Date: | 10 October 2004 |
| Location: | West Kent, England |
| Voucher: | 10/10/2004[K] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Fruitbody |
| Record Summary: | 3 fruitbodies in grass |
| Associated organism: | amongst live plants of Poaceae |
| Identification Notes: | Cap: pale buff, weakly expallent, not or only slightly pellucid striate, with veil remnants around margin. Stipe: white, tomentose at base, striate at apex. Gills: pale when young, subdistant, with decurrent tooth, edge not red-lined. Basidia: 4-spored, 9µm diam. Spore print: dark brown (BFF: "date brown") Spores: 8-9/4-4.5µm. narrowly ellipsoid, slightly broader at base, with germ pore, brown sub micr., the longer spores slightly phaseoliform, but no wider than their shorter brethren. Cheilocystidia: spheropedunculate to clavate. Pleurocystidia: abundant, fusiform to utriform, thin-walled, without crystals or exudations. |
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Cap - enlarged | 500 by 459 pixels | ||
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Gills | 500 by 443 pixels | ||
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In situ | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Pleurocystidium - magnified | 46 Kb | 394 by 348 pixels | |
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