|
 Entoloma perplexum
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
Images (click to enlarge)
Caption: Entoloma perplexum 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., at first convex becoming plane, centre slightly depressed, brownish-grey
or beige, colours fading on drying, dry, velvety, neither hygrophanous nor striate,
membranous. Lamellae (L 8-10, l 3) broadly adnate, beige when young turning
pinkish-beige, with concolorous, even gill edge. Stipe 10-15 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindrical,
coloured like pileus, glabrous, dry, fistulose. Context brownish. Odor and taste
subfarinaceous.
Spores
10-13 x 7-9 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 30-35 x 12-15 µm, normally 4-spored, occasionally
2-spored. Cheilocystidia 30-50 x 10-20 µm, lageniform or ventricose with subcapitate
neck, membrane hyaline, pigment absent. Pleuro- and caulocystidia absent. Cuticle
a palisade of erect, short cylindrical hyphae, terminal cells clavate (8-12
µm diam.), frequently, thin-walled, not gelatinized, with brown plasmatic pigment.
Clamp connections lacking.
Habitat: soil in forests (under Nothofagus spp., Dacrydium cupressinum).
New Zealand.
Notes: This
species is closely related to E. mariae Stev. but its fruiting bodies
are much smaller. From the microscopical point of view the spores of E. perplexum
are larger and the structure of the cuticle is quite different from that of
the before mentioned species.
|