Wednesday 22 August 2018

Dalgety Bay Weeping Mary

Glamourshot style


Carrifran - Mycena acicula and Hemimycena tortuosa

The orange mycenoid is M.acicula, the white H.tortuosa (dewdrop bonnet)


A few "dewdrops"

The tortuose caulicystidia that hold the droplets

Tuesday 21 August 2018

Carrifran Inocybe fuscidula

A few of an Inocybe sp. were picked up at Carrifran Wild Wood

This is the photoset and working that brought me to I.fuscidula (ID confirmed)

Photos:

Habitus

Gill detail

Pleuro cy. & basidia (4-spored)

Apical portion of stipe
Pleuro cy., 60x17 fusiform, crystals

Cystidia - width



Spores 10x6u, brown, amygdaloid

Cystidia abundant

Keying in FN

Genus key
1. Pleurocystidia abundant
3. Spores not nodulose
7. Lower stem not pruinose, not bulbous
8. Smell not noteworthy
9. stem apex pruinose ->) Key I - sect. Tardae

Key I - sect. Tardae
1. Cap - ylw-brown
7. Stem not violaceous
8.9. ... nor pink nor green ...
12. Not arctic/alpine
14. Not shiny/smooth pileus
15. Wrong habitat
16. Cap colour
18.19.20 I.fuscidula