Chocolate Brown Fungus

[Waxcap]

That’s a good point Roy. The cystidia photographed were isolated and away form the gill edge but not that far. I haven’t looked at M. platyphylla under the scope before and there seems to be quite a depth of cystidia at the gill edge which do thin out and extend up the face of the gill so I think you may have explained the pleurocystidia issue. I’ll look at a larger area to check. The cystidia shapes were rather more varied than the photo’s above show but they are representitive of the majority.

Dave

[Waxcap]

I’ve looked at the whole gill surface and there aren’t any of the brown cystidia once you get about a quarter of the gill depth away from the edge but they certainly are further up the gill face than all other cheilocystidia I have encountered. Thanks for the help, I think it has to be Megacollybia platyphylla.

Dave

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