Taxonomy
Entoloma canobrunnescens
Red List Status -
Description
Description
Pileus: convex with an umbo; 15 - 45 mm diameter; dry; minutely squamulose or finely fibrillose; grey brown; margin strongly striate.
Stipe: cylindrical; 30 - 60 × 3 - 4 mm; dry; pale silvery grey; white fibrillose; fistulose.
Gills: free; crowded; white to beige; turning pink with age
Flesh: pale silvery grey.
Smell: not distinctive.
Spore print: pink.
Spores: angular, 5 - 6 sided; 10 - 11 × 7 - 7.5 µm; smooth.
Notes: this fungus is very like a slightly robust E. aromaticum without the darker brown umbo and the fruity aromatic smell. Only known from the type collection.
Patrick Leonard 2019