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MUOB 175493
Conocybe apala var. albipes (Hauskn.) Arnolds
Bolbitiaceae
Rocky Houghtby
2014-08-28
United States, Illinois, Chicago, Belmont-Cragin
41.9264 -87.7661 +-2475m.
Ecology Enriched garden soil Pileus At first nearly cylindric, yellow-tan, darker at margin, striatulate, viscid, becoming narrowly conic, not fully expanded, white with yellow hints. Lamellae Narrow, white at first, deliquescing. Stipe Coated in pruinescence, longitudinally striate, white, hollow, basal bulb seemingly with a minute rim. Spores 15.08 X 8.39 15.61 X 9.37 14.12 X 8.74 14.95 X 8.85 15.20 X 8.47 15.70 X 8.68 14.71 X 8.39 14.95 X 8.86 15.05 X 9.07 15.20 X 9.51 15.89 X 8.96 15.88 X 9.35 14.83 X 8.91 14.11 X 8.48 14.79 X 9.22 16.12 X 9.47 14.38 X 8.63 15.42 X 9.68 13.01 X 8.67 15.02 X 9.37 15.03 X 9.15 16.85 X 8.56 14.73 X 7.64 16.89 X 10.01 16.28 X 9.39 15.55 X 8.73 15.17 X 9.10 15.14 X 7.85 16.29 X 8.87 16.04 X 9.31 Range- (13.01)16.85 X 10.01(7.64) Avg-14.74 X 8.92 Q range- 1.68-1.70 Q 1.65 Dark orange in deposit, appearing to be smooth or at least very minutely verrucose, large apical germ pore, spore walls thick, only 4-sterigma basidia observed. germ pore 1.72 1.73 1.92 1.57 1.66 1.36 1.76 1.51 1.65 1.80 1.69 1.80 1.69 1.56 1.88 1.56 1.88 1.79 1.57 1.74 1.68 1.69 1.92 1.52 1.42 1.47 1.46 1.88 1.37 1.21 Range- 1.2-1.9 Avg- 1.6 Cheilocystidia 28.30 X 13.66 33.45 X 12.41 31.09 X 10.73 31.41 X 8.85 31.69 X 9.74 25.62 X 8.50 30.91 X 12.10 31.45 X 10.05 31.25 X 8.53 28.06 X 10.54 Range- (28.06)33.45 X 12.41(8.50) Avg- 30.32 X 10.51 Q range- 3.3-2.6 Q- 2.8 Deeply embedded, truly lecythiform with globose capitulum Capitulum 5.37 5.59 4.76 4.65 4.93 5.77 5.43 5.68 5.07 5.18 Range- 4.65-5.77 Avg- 5.2 Pileocystidia very scarce, filamentous with capitulum. Caulocystidia very abundant, lageniform to flexuous, filamentous, absolutely no lecythiform caulocystidia observed
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