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

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Entoloma sulphureum Hk. (holotype): a. carpophores. b. spores. c. cuticle.

Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor

Caption: 68/392: ENTOLOMA SULPHUREUM
Owner: Egon Horak

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: scale=5mm
Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: FUNNZ2007/0698
Owner: FUNNZ

Caption: FUNNZ2007/0698
Owner: FUNNZ

Caption: FUNNZ2007/1234
Owner: FUNNZ

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 10-25 mm diam., convex when young becoming depressed at the centre and finally umbilicate, straw-yellow to deep yellow, yellow-brownish, colours fading in aged carpophores, glabrous, dry, slightly striate near the margin, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 10-14, 1 1-3), adnexed or emarginate, ventricose, pink from the first, gill edge intact and concolorous. Stipe 15-40 x 1-2.5 mm, cylindrical, coloured like pileus, with white weft of mycelium at the base, glabrous elsewhere, dry fistulose, solitary. Context yellowish. Odor and taste slightly farinaceous.
Spores 6-7 x 5-6 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 26-30 x 7-8 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis consisting of repent, cylindrical hyphae, with hyaline membrane encrusted by yellowish-brownish pigment. Clamp connections present.
Habitat: On soil in forests (under Leptospermum spp., Nothofagus spp.). New Zealand.