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Readers’ Finds Clavariadelphus truncatus This extremely rare species in Britain was found by Mike Kemp, a member of the Shropshire Fungus Group, in woods on Broniarth Hill, Wales. It differs from the more frequently recorded (although still very uncommon) C. pistillaris in its flattened, truncate club and by its association with conifers; a red, not yellow KOH reaction; a mild rather than bitter taste and the development of the rather more wrinkled, almost chanterelle-like hymenium on the underside of the club. In the younger material of this
collection the hymenial surface is extraordinarily wrinkled and convoluted (see Fig. 2). There appears to be only one genuine British record, from Worcestershire in 1924 by Carlton Rea and the species is listed in the current Red Data List as extinct!
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Lycoperdon excipuliforme Bert and Gill Brand sent in this photo of an unusual specimen of L. excipuliforme. The odd
fruitbody on the right has divided into three heads (Bert christened it forma cerberus, after the three-headed dog of the underworld).
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I" #L#KJ Rugosomyces ionides Ted Brown collected this very uncommon species (formerly known as Calocybe ionides) at West Horsley, Sheepleas, Surrey in September (Fig. 4). It is easily recognised by its combination of purple-lavendar cap and stem contrasting with the pale cream gills, and the tendency for the cap cuticle to crack easily. The cracking reflects the cellular nature of the cap cuticle which consists of inflated, rounded or pyriform cells. It is most likely to be confused with the similarly coloured,
although usually much darker, brownish purple R. obscurissimus (Fig. 5), which also has very slightly broader spores. With rather more pinkish brown tones is the uncommon R. persicolor (Fig. 6), often confused with the common and pure pink R. carneus. The last two species can be separated, apart from their cap colours, by slightly different spore sizes: 4–5 x 2–3 µm in R. persicolor and 4.5–8 x 2–3 µm in R. carneus.
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Readers’ Finds Clavariadelphus truncatus This extremely rare species in Britain was found by Mike Kemp, a member of the Shropshire Fungus Group, in woods on Broniarth Hill, Wales. It differs from the more frequently recorded (although still very uncommon) C. pistillaris in its flattened, truncate club and by its association with conifers; a red, not yellow KOH reaction; a mild rather than bitter taste and the development of the rather more wrinkled, almost chanterelle-like hymenium on the underside of the club. In the younger material of this
collection the hymenial surface is extraordinarily wrinkled and convoluted (see Fig. 2). There appears to be only one genuine British record, from Worcestershire in 1924 by Carlton Rea and the species is listed in the current Red Data List as extinct!
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doi:10.1016/j.fldmyc.2014.01.010
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I" #L#KJ Rugosomyces ionides Ted Brown collected this very uncommon species (formerly known as Calocybe ionides) at West Horsley, Sheepleas, Surrey in September (Fig. 4). It is easily recognised by its combination of purple-lavendar cap and stem contrasting with the pale cream gills, and the tendency for the cap cuticle to crack easily. The cracking reflects the cellular nature of the cap cuticle which consists of inflated, rounded or pyriform cells. It is most likely to be confused with the similarly coloured,
although usually much darker, brownish purple R. obscurissimus (Fig. 5), which also has very slightly broader spores. With rather more pinkish brown tones is the uncommon R. persicolor (Fig. 6), often confused with the common and pure pink R. carneus. The last two species can be separated, apart from their cap colours, by slightly different spore sizes: 4–5 x 2–3 µm in R. persicolor and 4.5–8 x 2–3 µm in R. carneus.
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