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Old 04-07-2009, 09:28 PM
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Re: Growing in Sphagnum

hi Rob

you do have a Galerina there; I strongly suspect that it is G. paludosa: it is the commonest of several which can occur in Sphagnum, is generally the earliest of those to appear, has whitish velar remants on the stem (as does yours - well done for taking a shot in situ, such characters are often removed by careless collecting)

spores and cheilocystidia look OK as well (though, of course characters such as the nature and extent of spore ornamentation, the type of so-called 'plage' etc, do require oil immersion)

FoS does of course only have a portion of the 60+ Galerina species recorded for GB and Ireland (heaven help people just using Phillips - which has 4 species plus mutabilis - and one of those is very rare!)

I wonder if the hyphae you have been measuring are not strictly from the pileipellis, but have come from further within the cap? I know I sometimes have difficulties when assessing this part of an agaric's anatomy . . . .

cheers

Chris
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