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Stropharia pseudocyanea (Desm.) Morgan, 1908 (Peppery Roundhead)

Notes (MWS) One of the greenish-blue Stropharia's, it is said to have a peppery smell, but can also be identified by the combination of capitate cheilocystidia and absence of marginal chrysocystidia. It is occasional but widespread in moist pastures and woodland clearings, especially in acid sites.
British records 338

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos # macrophotos # microphotos Date Vice-county Country
Stropharia pseudocyanea Fruitbody 26 11 15 8 Nov 1998 Berks England
Stropharia pseudocyanea toadstool, close-ups, cheilocystidia, chrysocystidia, spores 17 5 12 21 Oct 2005 Berks England
Stropharia pseudocyanea? Fruitbody 4 4 10 Oct 2006 Derby England
Stropharia pseudocyanea? Fruitbody 3 3 10 Oct 2006 Derby England

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Kibby, G., 2010 Fungal portraits: No. 41: Stropharia caerulea and other green Stropharia species
Orton, P.D., 1976 Notes on British Agarics VI

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 general literature references to Stropharia pseudocyanea (Peppery Roundhead)

Stropharia pseudocyanea may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
STROPHARIACEAE
(a family of toadstools)
Stropharia
(roundhead toadstools)
Macromycetes (via Agaricales) Fungi sl.

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 feeding and other relationships of Stropharia pseudocyanea (Peppery Roundhead)

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