Omphalina galericolor var lilacinicolor (Bon) Kuyper, (a toadstool)


8 Nov 2005 at OSGR: SU46 in Berks, England

Record Summary29 fruitbodies under edge of Gorse in heathy grassland
Found asFruitbody
Date8 November 2005
OS grid refOSGR: SU46
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher8 Nov 2005[C]
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Notes:

Cap: moist cap pale BFF: "clay pink" to pale BFF: "vinaceous buff", patchily BFF: "D" hoary where dry, obscurely pellucid-striate when moist, shallowly umbilicate.

Gills: subdistant, often forking, strongly decurrent.

Stipe: pruinose, often flexuose, narrow, darker than cap when young becoming concolourous with darker (wet) patches on cap, 1-2x as long as cap diam.

Spore print: white, adhering to slide, non-amyloid.

Cap cuticle: septate, clamped (large clamps), cylindric but slightly swollen towards the septa, fairly thick-walled (ie clearly visible) hyphae, 5-8µm diam. with occasional more swollen cells and encrusting pigment in places, forming a loose radiating weave with some more tangled patches.

Gill edge: fertile.

Basidia: 4-spored.

Spores: pip-shaped, 6-7/4.5-6µm.

Stipe cuticle: hyaline, parallel, cylindric, clamped hyphae, 3-5µm diam, with projecting thin-walled coralloid caulocystidia.

[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]

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