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| Record Summary | in grassland, perhaps around old cow pats |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 31 October 2005 |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
| Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W |
| Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 31 Oct 2005[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Cap: brown innately fibrillose, thick-fleshed (12.5mm in cap just breaking, 11mm in older cap).
Gills: narrowly white-edged.
Ring: thick, smooth below, breaking into teeth at margin; slightly striate near stipe, above.
Flesh: white, reddening when touched and on cutting.
Cap flesh + KOH: no change.
Spore print: BFF: "cigar brown"
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: 7-9/4.5µm, quite mixed in size.
Cheilocystidia: clustered, hyaline, clavate cells, up to 35/20µm, not in chains.
Cap cuticle: skeins of filamentous hyphae, 3-8µm diam., septate, but hardly exppanded, with brown vacuolar pigment.
[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]The following literature was used to identify this find:
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