Hydropus floccipes (Fr.) Singer, (a toadstool)


14 Oct 1998 at OSGR: SU30 in South Hants, England

Record Summaryon moss-covered fallen Oak log
Found asFruitbody
Date14 October 1998
Associated organismQuercus
OS grid refOSGR: SU30
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 1° 30’ W
Vice CountySouth Hants, VC no: 11
CountryEngland
Voucher14 Oct 1998[E]
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Notes:

Gills: quite tough.

Stipe: rooting.

Smell: slightly fruity on cutting.

Spore print: white, non-amyloid.

Spores: spherical, 6-7µm diam (excluding apiculus).

Basidia: 4-spored.

Pleurocystidia: abundant, fusiform.

Cheilocystidia: lageniform.

Caulocystidia: vermiform to lageniform with dark contents, clamped at base.

Pileicystidia: hyaline, cylindric-capitate, elbowed, clamped, on a radially filamentous cuticle c. 6µm diam.

A second log nearby had similar fruitbodies, but with caps splitting and turned up towards margin.

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