Mycena chlorantha (Fr.) P. Kumm., (a bonnet)


18 Nov 2014 at OSGR: SZ08 in Dorset, England

Record Summaryon dead and about Marram Grass
Found asFruitbody
Date18 November 2014
Associated organismAmmophila arenaria
OS grid refOSGR: SZ08
Lat/Lon50° 40’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice CountyDorset, VC no: 9
CountryEngland
Voucher18 Nov 2014[A]
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Notes:

Smell: cucumbery; iodoform on drying.

Spore print: white, amyloid.

Spores: broadly ellipsoid-dacroid, with a single large oil drop, very variable in length, 9-11.5/6µm, strongly cyanophilic (rapidly staining in lactophenol cotton blue).

Basidia: mostly 4-spored, a few patches of 2-spored.

Gill edge: faintly yellow, not always visible.

Cheilocystidia: sphaeropedunculate, warted, up to 80/45µm, but mostly smaller eg 65/22.5µm.

Cap cuticle: more or less parallel, radiating, thin-walled, hyaline, filamentous hyphae 2-4µm diam. with superficial branched, coralloid to cylindrical end-cells 1-2µ diam., overlaying cellular flesh.

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