Lacrymaria lacrymabunda (Bull.) Pat., (weeping widow)


22 Oct 2014 at OSGR: SU00 in Dorset, England

Record Summaryroadside grass verge, under pine
Found asFruitbody
Date22 October 2014
OS grid refOSGR: SU00
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice CountyDorset, VC no: 9
CountryEngland
Voucher22 Oct 2014[C]
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Notes:

Spore print: black.

Cheilocystidia: abundant, hyaline, long-stalked and capitate, 70/5, heads 15-17µm diam, occasionally mis-shapen and larger.

Pleurocystidia: cylindric to slightly capitate, singly or in 2’s or 3’s.

Cap cuticle: pale brown, filamentous, cylindric hyphae to narrow sausage-shaped cells, over broad sausage-shaped encrusted cells, over cellular matrix.

Basidia: 4-spored.

Spores: 9-10/6-7µm, with germ pore and dark warts.

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