11 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Lepiota perplexa Cap Convex, expanding, smooth, brown decorated with dark brown pyramidal warts, margin overhanging, to about 6 cm across Gills Free, broad, crowded, white to cream Stem Cylindrical, whitish at the apex, with the remains of a fragile white veil, fibrillose and brown below, sometimes hollow Flesh Firm, white Smell Unpleasant, like Lepiota cristata Taste Unpleasant Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat Usually in deciduous woodland, favouring beech and hazel Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, dextrinoid (4.5-6.5) x (2.5-3) µm2. Gill edge cystidia club shaped, spindle shaped, bottle shaped or cylindrical. Edibility Avoid Notes This species looks like a smaller version of Echinoderm aspera, but it is microscopically quite distinct. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 11 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 11 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Pileipellis in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 11 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |