Entoloma aromaticumBiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
Images (click to enlarge) Caption: Entoloma aromaticum Hk. (holotype):
a. carpophores. b. spores. c. cuticle | Caption: Entoloma aromaticum Owner: Kaimai Bush | Caption: Entoloma aromaticum Owner: Kaimai Bush | Caption: Entoloma aromaticum Owner: Kaimai Bush | Caption: ZT68-404: Entoloma aromaticum Owner: Egon Horak | Caption: ZT68-153: Entoloma aromaticum Owner: Egon Horak | Owner: J.A. Cooper | Caption: Dried type specimen Owner: Herb PDD | |
Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p. Description: Pileus
10-20 mm diam., conical when young becoming papillate or umbonate, pronounced
umbo always present, grey-brown, fading to beige, glabrous or finely fibrillose,
strongly striate, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 10-14, 1 3) free, ventricose,
whitish or beige, turning pink, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 20-45 x 1-2 mm,
cylindrical, coloured like pileus or paler, apically glabrous, densely covered
with white fibrils especially near the base, dry, fistulose, brittle. Context
brownish, watery. Odor aromatic, fruity becoming farinaceous. Taste farinaceous.
Spores
9-11 x 6-7.5 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 30-38 x 9-12 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none.
Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (5-15 µm), loosely interwoven,
membrane thin-walled and not gelatinized, pigment brown, plasmatic or epimembranous.
Clamp connections present or absent. Habitat: On
soil in forests (of all kind of forests from the coast to 1200 m a.s.l.). New
Zealand. Notes: E. aromaticum is the most
variable of all Entoloma species studied in New Zealand. Though the size,
shape and colour of the pileus is more or less constant the shape of the spores,
the localization of the pigment in the hyphae of the cuticle and the presence
or absence of the clamp connections can vary widely. The most striking character
of this species is the strong fruity smell which may change to mealy in old
carpophores.
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