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Galerina phillipsii.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Sumpf-Haubling
Galerina phillipsii Mushroom
Ref No: 7750
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Galerina phillipsii2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7751
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location: Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Brown
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows on the ground

Galerina phillipsii sp. nov Sumpf-Haubling. Cap 8–18mm across, conico-convex then expanded and acutely umbonate, hygrophanous, dark olive-brown when moist drying rusty-brown and striate. Stem 20–40´2–3mm, concolorous with cap except for the paler apex. Flesh concolorous with cap and stem. Smell not distinctive. Gills olive-brown to rust. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, subcylindric to bottle-shaped, 30–50 x 5–8m, sometimes swollen to 10m at the base. Spore print brown. Spores almond-shaped, ornamented, 9–12 x 4.5–5(6)um. Habitat amongst moss on marshy firesite. Season late spring. Rare. Not edible -suspect. Found In Europe.
Latin description by Reid in Bulletin of the British Mycological Society Vol. 15, II.

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