Conocybe rickeniana

Cellular pileipellis, formed by spherical to pyriform, clavate, hyaline hyphae.

Caulocystidia lecythiform, very abundant, especially on the upper stipe.

Cheilocystidia lecythiform, large for the genus, with a capitulum up to 9 µm wide. The width measurements indicated here correspond to the width of the capitulum, not the broadest part of the base.

Basidia clavate, 2- and 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, thick-walled, yellowish-brown under the microscope, with an inconspicuous lateral apiculus at one end and an indistinct germ pore at the opposite end, with vacuolar content.