Young specimens. 8 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, sometimes flat, smooth, sometimes lined at the margin, reddish brown when moist, drying pale brown, about 2 to 10 cm across Gills Narrowly adnate, broad, pale brown then reddish brown Stem Cylindrical or club shaped, pale brown, longitudinally fibrous, pruinose Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Infrequent Habitat On stumps and at the base of living trees, usually clustered Spore Print Red brown Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to bean shaped, smooth (6.5-11) x (4-5.5) µm2. Gill edge cystidia flask shaped, some with an encrusted apex. Cap cuticle cells club and pear shaped. Edibility Inedible 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 8 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 8 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |