Entoloma dysthales (Peck) Sacc., 1891 (a toadstool)

Date:	28 September 2000
OS grid ref:	SU56
Lat/Lon:	51° 20' N, 1° 20' W
Location:	Vice County: Berks, VC22, England
Voucher:	28/09/2000[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)
Stage or 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.