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| Record Summary | in clump around patch of orange-brown dead moss |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 21 October 2005 |
| Associated organism | Bryopsida |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
| Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W |
| Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 21 Oct 2005[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Two groups, both associated with orange-brown dead moss.
Cap apparently dry, but with affixed grass.
Stipe: fistulose, with rooting base and very narrow and thin white ring.
Gills: thin, crowded, adnate, white, turning pale orange in dried specimen.
Smell: strongly mealy, very strongly so on cutting.
Taste: sourly mealy, unpleasant.
Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Gill edge: fertile.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: hyaline, with discrete rounded warts visible under x40 objective, 7-8/4.5-5µm.
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