Gymnopus obscuroides Antonín & Legon, (a toadstool)


29 Oct 2001 at OSGR: SU56 in Berks, England

Record Summaryon bark chippings on flower beds
Found asFruitbody
Date29 October 2001
Habitat featurebark chippings on flower beds
OS grid refOSGR: SU56
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher29 Oct 2001[A]
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Notes:

Cap: soon plane, dry, hygrophanous;

Stipe: pilose to full length, almost shaggy at the apex.

Gills: remote (with broad collar), crowded, narrow.

Smell: leathery.

Spore print: "C", non-amyloid;

Gill edge: sterile, eroded, with abundant projecting cheilocystidia.

Basidia: clamped at base

Spores: 8-9/4-5µm.

Cap cuticle: pale fulvous but turning pale hazel in KOH; clamped, septate pale brown hyphae with zebrate encrusting pigment; lines of granules along the hyphae are the remains of spores.

Cheilocystidia: hyaline, irregular, coming away in KOH in groups still attached to branched hyphae.

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