Melanoleuca exscissa var iris (Kühner) Boekhout, (a smoky cavalier)


2 May 2004 at OSGR: TQ96 in West Kent, England

Record Summary6 white toadstools in grass on the ground under Cherry trees
Found asFruitbody
Date2 May 2004
OS grid refOSGR: TQ96
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 0° 50’ E
Vice CountyWest Kent, VC no: 16
CountyKent
CountryEngland
Voucher2 May 2004[J]
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Notes:

Cap: buff and whitish, zoned, like Clitocybe rivulosa.

Gills: very crowded.

Smell: strongly cyanic; taste: strongly mushroomy, rancid.

Spore print: white on surrounding grass; cream on paper, BFF: "C", amyloid.

Spores: 8-10/5-6µm, rough on outline under x40 obj., warty in Melzer’s Iodine, with a ring of granules around the plage.

Basidia: 4-spored.

Cheilocystidia: septate, with long narrow barbed apex.

[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]

The following literature was used to identify this find:

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