Agaricus bernardii Quél., (salty mushroom)


4 Sep 2011 at OSGR: SY67 in Dorset, England

Record Summary7 fruitbodies near edge of vegetation, at base of shingle bank
Found asFruitbody
Date4 September 2011
OS grid refOSGR: SY67
Lat/Lon50° 30’ N, 2° 30’ W
Vice CountyDorset, VC no: 9
CountryEngland
Voucher4 Sep 2011[B]
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Notes:

Cap: smooth, whitish, becoming fibrillose-scaled and brownish with age.

Gills: "drab" when young, finally "cigar brown", edge concolourous, without macroscopically visible cheilocystidia.

Stipe: ringed, base rooting.

Flesh; white, turning pale red in stem when fresh.

Fruitbody: easily bruising pale reddish brown when young.

Smell (fresh): pleasant, sweet, mushroomy; fleetingly fishy when put in box.

Spore print: "snuff brown".

Gill edge: subfertile, with embedded swollen cheilocystidia.

Basidia: 4-spored.

Spores: pale sepia, broadly ellipsoid, 5-6/3.5-4µm.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

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