16 October 2022 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bell shaped with a blunt central bump, radially fibrillose, soon splitting radially, reddish brown to umber, to about 6 cm across Gills Broad, narrowly attached, greyish brown, darker with age, margin pale Stem Cylindrical, longitudinally fibrous, reddish brown, with a white and distinctly bulbous base Flesh Whitish Smell Spermatic Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Common Habitat On soil with deciduous and coniferous trees Spore Print Reddish brown Microscopic Features Spores nodular, +/- star shaped, smooth (9-12) x (7-10) µm2. Basidia club shaped, four spored. Gill cystidia lageniform, apices encrusted. Edibility Poisoous Notes This species is one of many Inocybe that have a rimose cap surface that splits radially 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 October 2022 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |