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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Entoloma uliginicola. Entoloma uliginicola

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Fig. 182: Entoloma uligincola Hk. (type): carpophores, spores, basidia, cuticle.
Caption: fruitbody
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Caption: 68/248: Entoloma ULIGINICOLA
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Caption: 68/284: Entoloma ULIGINICOLA
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Caption: spores and cheilocystidia
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Caption: rugulose spores and 2-spored basidia
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Article: Horak, E. (1980). Entoloma (Agaricales) in Indomalaya and Australasia. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 65: 352 p.
Description: P. 10-20 mm, hemispheric or convex when young becoming plane, centre often depressed to subumbilicate in overmature specimens; white or pale grey-brown with distinct blue tinge; dry, estriate, not hygrophanous, coarsely fibrillose, sometimes concentrically zonate, often rimose and split towards margin. L. 8-16(-3), adnate to adnexed, emarginate in mature carpophores, ventricose, -5 mm wide: whitish to pale argillaceous with blue tinge, becoming argillaceous-pink, edge concolorous, even. St. 30-60/1,5-2 mm, cylindric, slender, equal; grey-blue, white towards the base to which conspicuous white rhizoids or strigose hairs are attached; dry, smooth at apex, coarsely fibrillose to hairy towards base, fistulose, single in groups. Context blue, especially in upper-portion of stipe. S farinaceous or spermatic. Sp. 9-12/5,5-6 µm, multiangled. Bas. 30-38/7-10 µm, 4-spored. Ch. and pl. absent. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindric hyphae (5-15 µm diam.), hyaline, thin-walled membrane, with brown PE, - OH, - CC.
Habitat: Habitat. - Among moss (Sphagnum) in swamps. - New Zealand.
Notes: In New Zealand this is a very common species in swampy localities called "pakihi". Apart of its peculiar habit this fungus is immediately recognized by the pale blue coloured pileus and stipe and the multiangled spores which remind of those known from Rhodocybe (Horak 1979c, 1979d).