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

Synonyms

Entoloma imbecille
Entoloma aromaticum f. minimum
Entoloma fragile
Rhodophyllus imbecillis

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Non endemic

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Caption: Entoloma aromaticum f. minima Hk. (holotype): a. carpophores. b. spores. c. cuticle.
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD

Caption: Entoloma fragile Hk. (holotype): a. carpophores b. spores. c. cuticle.
Caption: Fig. 106: Entoloma imbecille Hk (type); spores
 

Article: Horak, E. (1980). Entoloma (Agaricales) in Indomalaya and Australasia. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 65: 352 p.
Habitat: Habitat. - On soil, rotten wood (Dacrydium sp.) or on rotting fern (Dicksonia sp.)
Distribution: New Zealand (type), Solomon Isl.
Notes: The fragile and pale argillaceous carpophores, the earthy to farinaceous smell, the encrusted cuticular hyphae, the clamp connections on the septa, and the conspicuously small 5-angled spores are distinctive characters of E. imbecille. The material gathered on the Solomon Islands agrees in all essential details with the typic collections from New Zealand.

Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Pileus 5-8 mm diam., conical or umbonate-plane, grey-beige, smooth, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 10-14, 13), adnexed or emarginate, exceeded by the margin of the pileus, whitish becoming pink, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 10-15 x 1 mm, cylindrical, coloured like pileus, white at the base, glabrous, fistulose, brittle. Taste and odor farinaceous.
Spores 6.5-7 x 5-5.5 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 25-30 x 8 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (3-10 µm diam.), the thin-walled, not gelatinized membrane encrusted by brown pigment. Clamp connections lacking.
Habitat: On soil or rotten wood in forests (under Dacrydium cupressinum, Podocarpus s pp., Metrosideros spp.). New Zealand.

Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Pileus 6-12 mm diam., convex at first becoming umbonate or campanulate, later also plane and sometimes subdepressed at centre, brown to beige, drying colours fading, glabrous or slightly fibrillose, striate, hygrophanous, dry. Lamellae (L 6-10, 1 3), adnexed, ventricose, whitish or beige turning pink, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 10-15 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindrical, coloured like pileus, glabrous, dry, fistulose, fragile. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores 6-7.5 x 5-6 µm, 5-angled. Basidia 25-36 x 8 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia absent. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (8-12-18 µm diam.), membrane hyaline, thin-walled and encrusted by brown pigment. Clamp connections abundant.
Habitat: On rotten debris ( of tree-fern,) or wood (of Dacrydium cupressinum). New Zealand.
Notes: The small, fragile carpophores and the small 5-angled spores characterise E. fragile. Macroscopically it greatly resembles E. melleum Hk., but the spores of that fungus are considerably larger (8-10 x 6-7 µm).