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 Entoloma melleum
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Entoloma melleum Hk. (holotype):
a. carpophores. b. spores. c. cuticle. | 
Caption: Entoloma mellum
Owner: Kaimai Bush | 
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 becoming convex to plane, without umbo or central
depression, whitish or light beige with faint yellow tinge, innately fibrillose,
strongly striate, hygrophanous, dry. Lamellae (L 8-12, l -3) adnexed, whitish
turning pink, with concolorous, even gill edge. Stipe 6-15 x 1 mm, cylindrical,
central, coloured like pileus, densely covered by concolorous, silky fibrils,
dry, solitary. Context beige. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores
8-10 x 6-7 µm, 5-6-sided. Basidia 35-40 x 10 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle
a cutis consisting of repent, cylindrical hyphae (8-14 µm diam.) with brown,
vacuolar or plasmatic pigment, membrane of hyphae thin-walled, not gelatinized.
Clamp connections present.
Habitat: On
rotten wood of Dacrydium cupressinum. New Zealand.
Notes: This
species is well characterized by the size and shape of the pileus and fruit-bodies
and is thereby quite distinguished from the two other, above-mentioned wood-inhabiting
species of Entoloma.
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