Entoloma poliopus var discolor Noordel., (a toadstool)


25 Oct 2005 at OSGR: SU56 in Berks, England

Record Summary11 toadstools in short species-rich grass
Found asFruitbody
Date25 October 2005
OS grid refOSGR: SU56
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher25 Oct 2005[A]
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Notes:

Cap: centre squamulose, almost black; elsewhere dark brown, radially fibrillose, becoming weakly virgate, paler towards the margin, not pellucid striate.

Stipe: pale steel grey, bluish smokey, base with white tomentum.

Gills: pale, edge concolourous or slightly dirty..

Spore print: BFF: "Cinnamon"

Cap cuticle: repent hyphae with inflated terminal cells, with vacuolar pigment, end cells to 23µm wide.

Gill edge: with abundant cheilocystidia.

Cheilocystidia: to 40/14µm, clavate, hyaline.

Basidia: 4-spored, unclamped.

Spores: 10-11/6.5-7µm.

[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]

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