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| Record Summary | 29 fruitbodies under edge of Gorse in heathy grassland |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 8 November 2005 |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU46 |
| Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W |
| Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 8 Nov 2005[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Cap: moist cap pale BFF: "clay pink" to pale BFF: "vinaceous buff", patchily BFF: "D" hoary where dry, obscurely pellucid-striate when moist, shallowly umbilicate.
Gills: subdistant, often forking, strongly decurrent.
Stipe: pruinose, often flexuose, narrow, darker than cap when young becoming concolourous with darker (wet) patches on cap, 1-2x as long as cap diam.
Spore print: white, adhering to slide, non-amyloid.
Cap cuticle: septate, clamped (large clamps), cylindric but slightly swollen towards the septa, fairly thick-walled (ie clearly visible) hyphae, 5-8µm diam. with occasional more swollen cells and encrusting pigment in places, forming a loose radiating weave with some more tangled patches.
Gill edge: fertile.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: pip-shaped, 6-7/4.5-6µm.
Stipe cuticle: hyaline, parallel, cylindric, clamped hyphae, 3-5µm diam, with projecting thin-walled coralloid caulocystidia.
[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]The following literature was used to identify this find:
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