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

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Fig. 61: Entoloma croceum Hk. (type): carpophores, spores, basidia, cheilocystidia. cuticle.

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
 

Article: Horak, E. (1980). Entoloma (Agaricales) in Indomalaya and Australasia. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 65: 352 p.
Description: P. 10-25. mm, plane or depressed at centre from the beginning, becoming umbilicate, margin incurved; orange, covered with appressed reddish brown fibrils and squamules; margin estriate, dry. f,. decurrent to arcuate, moderately close; fawn becoming pinkish; edge albofimbriate. St. 15-30/-1,5 mm, cylindric; cream; smooth, fistulose, dry, single in groups. Context orange. S ?. Sp. 8-9,5/6-7 µm, 5-7-angled. Bas. 25-30/7-8 µm, 4-spored. Ch. 30-70/ 8-16 µm, clavate, membranes thin-walled, hyaline, pigment absent, froming sterile seam at edge. Pl. none. Cuticle a cutis of repent cylindric hyphae (3-7 µ diam.), membranes thin-walled, with brownish PE, +OH, - CC.
Habitat: Habitat. - On soil (under Leptospermum scoparium and L. ericoides). - New Zealand.
Notes: This species is characterized by the orange colour of the carpophores, the umbilicate pileus, the decurrent lamellae, the conspicuous clavate cheilocystidia, and the presence of oleiferous hyphae in the subcuticular context.