Agrocybe pediades (Fr.) Fayod, (common fieldcap)


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

Record Summary2 fruitbodies among troop of Psilocybe bullacea on soil in sheep pasture
Found asFruitbody
Date2 May 2004
Habitat featuresoil/sheep dung
OS grid refOSGR: TQ96
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 0° 50’ E
Vice CountyWest Kent, VC no: 16
CountyKent
CountryEngland
Voucher2 May 2004[AG]
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Notes:

Cap slightly viscid but not peelable, pale "saffron" or "F", to 15mm diam.

Stipe: dry. no ring or ring zone, striate at apex, superficially fibrillose below, rimose at base.

Spore print: umber, no violet tinge.

Spores: 13-15.5/8-9.5µm, with germ pore.

Facial chrysocystidia: absent.

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