20 November 2021 Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Cap convex, expanding with age, often with a central bump, fibrous, coarsely scaly in the centre, ochraceous brown to grey brown, to about 35 mm across Gills Broad, narrowly attached, crowded, lilac when young, becoming brown with age Stem Cylindrical, surface fibrous, greyish lilac, darker at the apex Flesh Firm, whitish Smell Indistinct Taste Do not taste Season Late summer to early winter Distribution Infrequent Habitat On soil in woods, usually with deciduous trees, more rarely with coniferous trees, and with Hedera (ivy) Spore Print Umber brown Microscopic Features Spores ovoid to almond shaped, smooth (8-11) x (5-6) µm2. Basidia club shaped, four spored. Gill edge cystidia lageniform to utriform. Caulocystidia absent. Edibility Unknown, possibly poisonous 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 20 November 2021 Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill face cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 20 November 2021 Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystida in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 20 November 2021 Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |