20th - 25th October 2019 - BMS Mid-Glamorgan Meeting

This week I attended the residential meeting of the British Mycological Soc., held near Port Talbot, South Wales. With collieries, dune systems and woodland and parks being made available for the participants good fungi was bound to be found, especially with so much expertise in attendance, plus me. I did manage to locate a few finds that were added to the top ten list for the week, so I will just illustrate here the various uncommon to rare species I managed to locate. Being able to administer  microscopy to these added to the interest of the finds and week. 
Locations codes are: 1. Kenfig Dunes 2. Tower Colliery  3. Dyffryn Woods  4. Maerdy Colliery  5. Methyr Mawr Dunes

(1) Inocybe dunensis

(2) Cortinarius hemitrichus

(2) Leccinum versipielle

(2) Pholiota conissans 

(3) Rhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta

Rhodocollybia prolixa sps

Rhodocollybia prolixa

(4) Collybia aquosa

(4) Laccaria laccata with unknown parasitic growth.

(5) Entoloma Dysthales - 2nd for Wales

(5) Entoloma Dysthales large spores

(5) Lepiota erminea

(5) Psathyrella ammophila

(5) Helvella macropus

(5) Helvella macropus

(5) Tephrocybe anthracophila