Record Summary | on soil |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 30 October 2009 |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 30 Oct 2009[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Tough dark grey toadstool with rooting stipe and strong, persistent rancid mealy smell. Cap and stipe with patchy of streaky white-wash of superficial hyphae giving it a mottled appearance.
Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Cap cuticle: narrow, thin-walled, hyaline, parallel, radiating, septate, unclamped, filamentous hyphae 3-6µm diam. Occasional more swollen and more branched hyphae with branches running in all directions are probably subcuticle.
Spores: smooth, ellipsoid, 7-8.5/4-4.5µm.
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