Great Brickhill church fungus survey 2

 After looking at the fungi around the Hazel tree, I walked around the short-mown grassland

FUNGUS 9 - Galerina sp.

FUNGUS 10 - Probably Melanoleuca sp. [pleurocystidia lageniforme (?) 50-60 microns long with 'calyptrate cap' similar to some mosses; similar cheilocystidia; spores 6-7 microns in diameter] The cystidia with the harpoon tips are found in Melanoleuca spp. If this family is suspected, make a spore print and add a drop of Melzers, and they will go black, i.e., amyloid.

FUNGUS 11 - Xerocomellus sp.?

FUNGUS 12 - Hygrocybe psittacina

FUNGUS 13a - Trichoglossum hirsutum (hairs present on fruitbody; 15 septa on spores)

FUNGUS 13b - Geoglossum cookeianum (about 3x the size of the previous species; no hairs present; fruitbody dry spores 7-septate; paraphyses with swollen barrel-shaped cells)

FUNGUS 14 (Leafspot on Mouse-ear Hawkweed)

FUNGUS 15a - Clavulinopsis laeticolor (spores 'with prominent apiculus offset')

FUNGUS 15b - Clavulinopsis laeticolor (these seemed to be more of an orange base colour and were found in a different place). The microscopy wasn't quite so straightforward with a number of spores initially seeming warted, but then standard C. laeticolor spores were found.

FUNGUS 17

FUNGUS 18 - Stropharia caerulea (in long grass at side of grassland)

FUNGUS 19 - Galerina sp.

FUNGUS 20 - Hygrocybe conica

FUNGUS 21 - Rickenella fibula

FUNGUS 22 - Dermoloma cuneifolium (conf. Penny Cullington)

FUNGUS 23

FUNGUS 24 - Spilopodia nervisequia on Ribwort Plantain leaves

 

FUNGUS 25 - Hygrocybe fornicata (Earthy Waxcap)

FUNGUS 26

FUNGUS 27 - Hebeloma sp.