Plants and animals of Pointfield

An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015   

Fungi 

Fibrecap

Inocybe mixtilis


Appearance

Small pinkish-brown cap, low domal; up to 30 mm diameter; with darker umbo; surface finely fibrillose away from umbo; underlying flesh white; no veil remnants seen. Gills pale, adnate with a slight notch close to attachment; gill edges glassy and distinctly frayed. Stem thin, to 40 x 3 mm; white, dry, covered in fine hairs (caulicystidia) only slightly expanded at base. Spore print dirty brown. Spores elongate and nodulose, 8.0-10.3 x 5.0-6.7 um, mean = 9.0 x 5.7 um; Qav = 1.6. Cheilocystidia abundant, lageniform, thick-walled, with prominent crystal encrustation of the head; accompanied by large numbers of clavte cystidia; pleurocustidia fewer in number but similar.

Easily distinguished from I. asterospora by its spores being more elongate and less knobbly.

Habitat

Cluster in grass adjacent to Viburnum bodnensis.


Months observed