18 October 2022 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Lepiota ventriosospora Cap Convex, expanding with age, pale brown to ochre brown with dark brown scales, to about 8 cm across Gills Free, broad, white Stem Slender, covered in woolly scales, concolorous with the cap Flesh White in the cap, brown and fibrous in the stem Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat In deciduous woods Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores fusiform, smooth (16-22) x (4-5.5) µm2. Gill edge cystidia clavate to ventricose. Basidia 4 spored, clavate. Edibility Inedible Notes This species could be confused with Lepiota clypeolaria. The two species are easily distinguished by examination of the spores. 
18 October 2022 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion microscope. 18 October 2022 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
31 October 2009 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
31 October 2009 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
16 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
16 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 October 2005 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 October 2005 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |