Psathyrella singeri A.H.Sm.

HERBARIUM OF
THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
fungi of XNDXA
Psathyrella singer! A.H.Smith
Growing in groups in the soil.
From Calicut Botanical Garden, Kerala.
Candolleomyces singeri (A.H. Smith) D.Wächt.& A.Melzer
collected by Sr. Little Flower #516.	10	Aug 1980.
determined by C.T. Rogerson & Sr. Little Flower 1981.
 ..am/ nrtTAkiinAL GARDEN

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Pilous 1*5-2 cro diameter, convex to plane, smooth
glabarous, shining, thin, fragile, vivacious buff,
striate, margin straight,not lobed, Lamellae adnate,
2 mm wide, concoloroua to the pileus, crowded with
lamellulae, fleshy, thin, fragile, margin smooth* Stipe
2-3*2 cm long, 2 ram wide, central, cylendric,
hollow, white, smooth,flashy fibrillose.Flesh thin,a less
than 1 mm thick, concoloroue to the pileus, composed of
closely packed thin walled,hyaline hyphae, hyphaa 4.7-7.5
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um diameter* lateci^erfus lik-e elr*mant present, in the
flesh* Spore print snuf brown, spore 6-7.5 x 4*5-5 um,
ellipsoid with one or two guttule, smooth walled, without
germpora, apicule not prominent* dextrinoid, not
metachromatic*
Basidia 17-18.8 x 7-7*5 um, cylendric clavata, thin,
wallsd, hyaline, 2-4 spored, sterigroa thin and short 2-2*5
cystidia 18*8-21 x 11-12 um, baloon shaped or ventricose,
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thin walled and hyaline*
Hyrasnaphoial trama regular to sub regular with closely
hyaline, cells 16-23*5 um diameter, subhymenium narrow with
small pseudoparench^imatous cells, cells upto 7*5 um diameter*
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cuticle hypha|l, hymBnsdermic, one layer of round to
pyriform cells, cells upto 23*5 um diameter* All hyphae with-
out clamp connection*
Growing in groups in the soil fromBot.Garden collected by
Sr.Little Flower on 10-8-80.	_
um long•
gill edge hetsromoppiious,
packed, cylendric and swollen cells, thin walled and
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