Hygrocybe chlorophana (Fr.) Wünsche, (golden waxcap)


13 Oct 2006 at OSGR: SK15 in Derby, England

Record Summaryon medium length, fine-leaved acid grassland
Found asFruitbody
Date13 October 2006
OS grid refOSGR: SK15
Lat/Lon53° 10’ N, 1° 50’ W
Vice CountyDerby, VC no: 57
CountryEngland
Voucher13 Oct 2006[H]
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Notes:

Cap: yellow, sticky, pellucid-striate.

Gills: pale.

Stipe: dry, fibrillose.

Gill trama: long cylindric thin-walled cells (with some unusual slightly thicker walled, round-ended, sinuous hyphae also in the gills)

Spores: broadly ellipsoid, oblong or amygdaliform, not waisted, (6)7.5-8(9)/4.5-6µm.

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