Entoloma convexumBiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
Images (click to enlarge) Caption: Entoloma convexum Stev. (holotype):
b. spores. (Herb. Hk. 67/115) a. carpophores. c. spores. d. cuticle. | Caption: ZT12626 Owner: E. Horak: © Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand |
Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p. Description: Pileus 10-20 mm diam., conical, umbo small,
sharp, rarely absent, papillate, bay brown or dark brown, drying paler, striate,
hygrophanous, dry, radially fibrillose. Lamellae (L 8-12, 1 3) free or slightly
adnexed, distant, deep pink, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 30-60 x 1.5-2 mm,
cylindrical, grey-brown, sometimes with white weft at the base, fragile, hollow,
glabrous, single. Context brownish. Odor unpleasant. Taste mild.
Spores
10-14.5 x 10-14 µm, subglobose, 5-6-angled. Basidia 40-60 x 11-16 µm, 4-spored.
Cheilo- and pleurocystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae
(5-24 µm diam.), membrane not gelatinized, thin-walled, encrusted by brown pigment.
Clamp connections present or absent. Habitat: On
soil in forests (under Nothofagus solandri). New Zealand. Notes: The
name of this species is in some ways misleading because the pileus is not truly
convex but practically always has a well-pronounced umbo. E. convexum
is well characterized by its large, subglobose spores, the papillate pileus
and the deep pink and free lamellae.
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