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 Entoloma readiae
BiostatusPresent in region - Exotic
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Caption: Entoloma readii Stev. (holotype):
c. spores (Herb. HK. 69/243): a. carpophores. b. spores. d. cuticle. | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: scale = 20um. Spores and gill edge.
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper |
Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Pileus
10-25(-40) mm diam., convex becoming campanulate or plane with depressed centre,
membranous margin exceeding gills, fawn or brown, finely silky or radially fibrillose,
dry, striate, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 10-14, l 3), adnexed or emarginate,
at first brown turning pink-brown, gill edge concolorous, sometimes scalloped.
Stipe 20-45 x 1.5-3 mm, cylindrical, concolorous with pileus, white weft near
the base, occasionally with strigose mycelium or rhizoids, fibrillose, dry,
fistulose, brittle, often in clusters. Context brownish. Odor and taste strongly
farinaceous or like cucumber.
Spores
7-9.5 x 5.5-7.5 µm, 5-angled. Basidia 35-40 x 10 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none.
Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (4-12 µm diam.), membrane hyaline,
thin-walled, not gelatinized, with brown, epimembranous pigment, lactifers present.
Clamp connections none.
Habitat: On
soil in forests. (Pinus spp., Nothofagus spp.). New Zealand.
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