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 Entoloma gelatinosum
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Entoloma gelatinosum Hk. (holotype):
a. carpophores b. spores. c. 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
30-50 mm diam., convex at first becoming plano-convex or broadly umbonate, brown,
pinkish towards the substriate margin, with lilac tints all over, distinctly
gelatinous, cuticle cartilaginous, glabrous. Lamellae adnexed, ventricose, densely
crowded, whitish at first turning pink, with concolorous gill edge. Context
lilac-brownish in pileus, whitish in stipe. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores
8-9 x 6.5-7.5 µm, 6-sided. Basidia 45-60 x 11 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia
none. Cuticle a palisade consisting of erect, fasciculate, cylindrical hyphae
(6-10 µm diam.), terminal cells fusoid or tapering towards the tips, with brownish
plasmatic pigment, membrane thin-walled, strongly gelatinized. Clamp connections
present.
Habitat: On
soil among litter in forests (under Nothofagus spp., Dacrydium cupressinum,
Quintinia, Coprosma, etc.). New Zealand.
Notes: The
gelatinous pileus, the palisadic structure of the cuticle and the robust habit
of the fruit-bodies are distinctive features of E. gelatinosum.
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