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(eukaryotes)
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(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
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AGARICALES
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ENTOLOMATACEAE
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Entoloma
(pinkgills)
Pouzarella
(a group of toadstools)
Entoloma dysthales
(a toadstool)
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Entoloma dysthales (Peck) Sacc., 1891 (a toadstool)

Date: 28 September 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 28/09/2000[E]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: amongst mossy roots of leaning Oak
Associated organism: under Quercus robur
Identification Notes: Smell: not noticed at the time, but a recollection at same spot on 17/10/00 smelled fleetingly of rotten cabbage.
Spore print: "clay pink"
Basidia: 4-spored.
Basidiospores: 12-17/8-10µm
Gill edge: fertile, with occasional ellipsoid-lageniform cheilocystidia 38-50/18µm, some more cylindric
Hymenium with brown cylindric aborted/effete basidia; prep in water very messy with granular material.
Cap cuticle: 15-25µm wide chains of elliptical cells, with encrusting pigment, no clamps.
Stipe basal tomentum: encrusted hyphae, up to 6 septate, some capitate elements;
similar hairs at apex.

Images etc

magnified photograph Cap - close-up 464 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap 97 Kb 479 by 443 pixels
naked eye photograph Cap 84 Kb 465 by 438 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies 500 by 412 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - close-up 321 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - side view and gills 232 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Gills and stipe apex 400 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Gills 500 by 486 pixels
magnified photograph Gills 500 by 391 pixels
magnified photograph Stipe and gills 400 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Two fruitbodies - in situ 500 by 375 pixels
microscope photograph Brown aborted/effete basidia - magnified 500 by 224 pixels
microscope photograph Brown aborted/effete basidia in hymenium - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Brown aborted/effete basidium - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - scalp - end cells - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - scalp - end cells - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - scalp - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - scalp - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Cap cuticle - scalp - highly magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystida - cylindric shaped ones. - magnified 461 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge - magnified 500 by 188 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge with brown aborted/effete basidia - magnified 500 by 233 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - magnified 500 by 318 pixels
microscope photograph Spores - highly magnified 500 by 373 pixels
microscope photograph Spores and brown aborted/effete basidium - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Stipe - apical tomentum - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Stipe - basal tomentum - encrusted - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Stipe - basal tomentum - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Stipe - basal tomentum - magnified 500 by 400 pixels

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