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

Synonyms

Entoloma pluteoides

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Fig. 129: Entoloma pluteimorphum Hk (type); spores

Caption: ZT8467: Entoloma pluteimorphum
Owner: Egon Horak

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD

Caption: Dried type specimens
Owner: Herb PDD

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

Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Pileus 15-45 mm diam., papillate or convex with pronounced umbo, aged carpophores occasionally depressed at the centre, beige to dark brown, glabrous when young but becoming slightly wrinkled, strongly striate, hygrophanous, dry. Lamellae free, densely crowded (l 3-7), pink, gill edge concolorous and not fimbriate. Stipe 25-50 x 2 mm, cylindrical, often curved, central, light brownish and densely covered by white, silky fibrils, dry, fistulose, fragile, occasionally twisted. Context watery, brownish. Taste and odor farinaceous.
Spores 10-11 x 6.5-7.5 µm, 5-sided. Basidia 26-44 x 11-13 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis or trichoderm of short, cylindrical hyphae (7-20 µm diam.), membrane thin-walled, not gelatinized, with plasmatic, brown pigment. Clamp connections absent.
Habitat: On rotten wood of Nothofagus fusca. New Zealand.
Notes: species was observed several times in the beech forests of New Zealand, on rotten wood of Nothofagus fusca only. See also under E. niveum Stev.

Article: Horak, E. (1980). Entoloma (Agaricales) in Indomalaya and Australasia. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 65: 352 p.
Habitat: Habitat. - On rotten wood of Nothofagus fusca. - New Zealand.
Notes: For full description see Horak (1973:33).