Volvariella surrecta (Knapp) Singer, (piggyback rosegill)


4 Nov 2014 at OSGR: SU20 in South Hants, England

Record SummaryOne to several fruitbodies and buttons on several Clouded Agarics
Found asFruitbody
Date4 November 2014
Associated organismClitocybe nebularis
OS grid refOSGR: SU20
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 1° 40’ W
Vice CountySouth Hants, VC no: 11
CountryEngland
Voucher4 Nov 2014[A]
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Notes:

Spore print: slightly yellowish BFF "Brick".

Spores: smooth, pale brownish, ellipsoid, with granular contents or oil droplets, 6-7.5/4-4.5µm.

Basidia: 3- and 4-spored.

Gill edge: sterile, with abundant cheilocystidia.

Cheilocystidia: abundant, lageniform to clavate, then usually with a mucronate apex, 45-50/10-25µm.

Pleurocystidia: fusiform, 70/12-13µm.

Cap cuticle: hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, filamentous, radiating, septate, unclamped, cylindrical to slightly inflated, hyphae, 8-17µm diam.

Volva: hyaline, thin-walled, slightly encrusted, septate, cylindrical, unclamped, hyphae, 7-10µm diam. No sphaerocysts.

First Hampshire record.

[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]

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