Flammulaster carpophilus var subincarnatus (Joss. & Kühner) Vellinga, (a toadstool)


10 Oct 2004 at OSGR: TQ96 in West Kent, England

Record Summaryon dead Cherry? wood fragment
Found asFruitbody
Date10 October 2004
Associated organismPrunus?
OS grid refOSGR: TQ96
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 0° 50’ E
Vice CountyWest Kent, VC no: 16
CountryEngland
Voucher10 Oct 2004[I]
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Notes:

Cap pale buff, very small, shaggy then youg, becoming superficially granular scaley when mature but remaining more shaggy towards the margin.

Stipe: fibrillose, slightly shaggy below, pruinose with long cystidial hairs above.

Smell: strong, rank.

Basidia: 4-spored.

Spores: broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid-fusiform, 7.7-10/5-6.6µm, many collapsed.

Gill edge: sterile, with long cystidia.

Cheilocystidia: abundant, hyaline, narrowly lageniform with long filiform apex.

Veil: with broadly ellipsoid cells and spherocysts.

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