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 Entoloma corneum
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Entoloma corneum Hk. (holotype):
a. carpophores b. spores. c cheilocystidia. d. cuticle. | 
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 5-10 mm diam., hemispherical at
first becoming convex, umbo lacking, brown or fuliginous, densely covered especially
near the centre by small scaly squamules, squamules appressed towards the striate
margin, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 6-8, l -3) adnate or emarginate, beige-pink,
with concolorous fimbriate gill edge. Stipe 15-25 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindrical, sometimes
slightly attenuated upwards, brownish, pruinate at the apex, glabrous towards
the base, dry, fistulose, fragile. Context brownish. Odor and taste slightly
farinaceous.
Spores
12-15 x 8.5-10 µm, 6-sided. Basidia 36-42 x 15 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia
50-80 x 10-18 µm, fusoid or ampulliform, ventricose with long tapering neck,
membrane hyaline, thin-walled. Pleurocystidia none. Caulocystidia 45-65 x 6-11
µm, like cheilocystidia but often capitate. Cuticle a palisade consisting of
erect, short cylindrical, not gelatinized hyphae (6-12µm diam.), with brown,
plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections absent.
Habitat: On
soil h forests (under Pittosporum spp., Knightia exelsa, Cyathea
spp.). New Zealand.
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