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07-05-2010, 07:07 PM
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| | | Help with ID please
Found this today by the side of the path in mixed woodland. Chocolate brown sporeprint. I'd be grateful for a steer on ID. Thanks.    |
08-05-2010, 02:14 PM
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| | | Re: Help with ID please
Spores are very dark brown, almost black. This is my best shot of them. If I've calibrated my microscope right they are about 6.5 X 4 microns. (I haven't got the hang of this microscope business at all yet).  |
08-05-2010, 04:06 PM
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| | | Re: Help with ID please
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Originally Posted by BROCSMAN  | That would be Psathyrella spadiceogrisea.
Andy |
08-05-2010, 04:35 PM
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Thanks Andy
I was wondering about Psathyrella, but the stipe being so robust I thought not. I'll know next time. |
09-05-2010, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by BROCSMAN Thanks Andy
I was wondering about Psathyrella, but the stipe being so robust I thought not. I'll know next time. |
There can be quite some variability in robustness of stems etc. with these species and other species of mushroom types, generally linked with water uptake. Size in fact can be a little misleading at times, it has certainly caught me out a few times.
Andy |
09-05-2010, 12:51 PM
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| | | Re: Help with ID please
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Originally Posted by BROCSMAN Thanks Andy
I was wondering about Psathyrella, but the stipe being so robust I thought not. I'll know next time. | And then you'll come across Psathyrella prona or similar and be thrown by the delicate size of the fungus ... I found quite a few P prona yesterday, and didn't at first recognise tham as a Psathyrella as I'm more familar with P griseospadicea  .
As you have a microscope try looking at the cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia - P griseospadicea should have some pleurocystidia with forked ends.
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09-05-2010, 01:53 PM
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| | | Re: Help with ID please
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Originally Posted by SheffieldLass And then you'll come across Psathyrella prona or similar and be thrown by the delicate size of the fungus ... I found quite a few P prona yesterday, and didn't at first recognise tham as a Psathyrella as I'm more familar with P griseospadicea .
As you have a microscope try looking at the cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia - P griseospadicea should have some pleurocystidia with forked ends.
Melanie | Would that be similar to P spadiceogrisea 
Mal |
09-05-2010, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by flaxton Would that be similar to P spadiceogrisea
Mal | Well, in my upside down world, probably .....  | | |
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