Agaricus langei (F.H. Møller) F.H. Møller, (scaly wood mushroom)


31 Oct 2005 at OSGR: SU56 in Berks, England

Record Summaryin grassland, perhaps around old cow pats
Found asFruitbody
Date31 October 2005
OS grid refOSGR: SU56
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher31 Oct 2005[E]
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Notes:

Cap: brown innately fibrillose, thick-fleshed (12.5mm in cap just breaking, 11mm in older cap).

Gills: narrowly white-edged.

Ring: thick, smooth below, breaking into teeth at margin; slightly striate near stipe, above.

Flesh: white, reddening when touched and on cutting.

Cap flesh + KOH: no change.

Spore print: BFF: "cigar brown"

Basidia: 4-spored.

Spores: 7-9/4.5µm, quite mixed in size.

Cheilocystidia: clustered, hyaline, clavate cells, up to 35/20µm, not in chains.

Cap cuticle: skeins of filamentous hyphae, 3-8µm diam., septate, but hardly exppanded, with brown vacuolar pigment.

[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]

The following literature was used to identify this find:

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