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| Record Summary | group of fruitbodies in grassland |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 13 October 2005 |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU79 |
| Lat/Lon | 51° 40’ N, 0° 60’ W |
| Vice County | Oxon, VC no: 23 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 13 Oct 2005[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Cap: dry; convex, becoming plane; margin often lobed, incurved and narrowly white, becoming plane with age; 70-100mm diam; "buff", centre darker, minutely appressed scaly, "clay buff" to "milky coffee"; with 1 or 2 rings of "milky coffee" spots at about mid-radius; young cap darker, patchily "hazel" to sepia".
Cap flesh: BFF:"B", mottled "milky coffee" where moist and with a "clay buff" line over the gill.
Stipe: pinkish BFF:"D", slightly tapered downwards, often slightly and irregularly swollen at base; innately longitudinally reticulate-tomentose, becoming rougher in large fruitbodies, and reticulately darker ("vinaceous buff") due to moisture in surface fibrils; stuffed.
Stipe flesh: "vinaceous buff" where moist, paler where dry, "hazel" in base.
Gills: crowded, soft, buffish "vinaceous buff", c. 7 intermediates, some very small, edge smooth, concolourous.
Smell: mealy intact, spermatic on cutting.
Taste: slowly slightly bitter, like Wood Blewits.
Spore print: pale "vinaceous buff".
Gill edge: fertile. No cystidia.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: oblong, rough, 5-6/3.5-4µm.
Cap cuticle: septate, clamped, hyaline, filamentous hyphae 2-6 µm diam, often inflated towards septum and/or weakly encrusted pigmented, with sparse superficial hyphae and end cells with bright yellow walls/contents.
[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]The following literature was used to identify this find:
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