On the type of Coprinus scobicola
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Original description
Coprinus scobicola P.D. Orton in Notes R. bot Gdn Edinb. 32: 147. 1972 (Notes on British Agarics IV). Holotype: England: Devon, Plym Bridge, on sawdust, 29 Aug. 1956, Orton 964 (E).

Cap ovoid or cylindric-ovoid 16-22 x 9-11 mm, them expanded-convex up to 30 mm broad, sometimes split at the margin, grey then tinged clay-buff at centre, at first covered with white " recurved fibrillose scales, those at centre often dirty brownish and thick and shaggy, then becoming " smooth as cap expands and plicate-striate to disc. Gills narrowly adnate to free, soon grey then black, crowded, edge white flocculose when fresh. Stem 35-50 x 2.5-4 mm, attenuated upwards, white, at first minutely flocculose with " tomentose base, becoming " smooth as cap expands, hollow. Flesh very thin, grey at disc. Smell none. Spore-print blackish.
Spores ellipsoid or slightly ellipsoid-amygdaliform with central germ-pore, 11.5-14 x 7-8.5 µm, very dark sub micr. Basidia 2-spored. Marginal cystidia pyriform or shortly vesiculose, 30-54 x 24-44 µm. Facial cystidia cylindric-vesiculose, 80-110 x 30-40 µm. Hyphae of veil on cap cylindric or narrowed at septa, ca. 50-100 x 8-20 µm.
Habitat. On sawdust.

Superficial resembling C. episcopalis but well characterised by different habitat and 2-spored basidia. It belongs to section Picacei with narrow to fairly broad hyphae (1-20 µm broad) in the veil.

Observations:
Spores [20,1,1] (11.5-)12.6-14.0(-16.3) x (7.8-)8.3-9.3(-10.4) µm, ovoid or ellipsoid with rounded base and apex, and central to slightly eccentric, c. 1.8 µm wide germ pore, very dark red-brown; Q = 1.40-1.60, av. Q = 1.50; av. L = 13.3, av. B = 8.8 µm. Basidia 23-32 x 7-8 µm, 2-spored, surrounded by 4-5 pseudoparaphyses. Cystidia collapsed. Pileipellis hyphoid. Veil made up of cylindrical, thin-walled elements, 70-150 x 4-17 µm, somewhat constricted at septa or not; terminal cells fusoid, (sub)cylindrical with rounded apex or tapering towards obtuse apex. Clamp-connections present, small.

Notes: The collection exist of two basidiocarps. The material is bad. We found the spores broader and slightly larger than Orton did.
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