Taxonomy

Red List Status -


Description

Pileus: convex becoming applanate; 30- 45 mm diameter; dry; minutely fibrillose; grey blue with a darker blue centre; margin distinctly striate.

Stipe: cylindrical to clavate; 30 - 45 × 4 - 6 mm; dry; coarsely fibrillose; bluish to pale blue grey.

Gills: adnexed; moderately distant; greyish sky blue turning pinkish with age.

Flesh: thin, blue grey.

Smell: none.

Spore print: pink.

Spores: angular; 6 - 7 sided;  8 × 10 µm; smooth.  

Notes: this fungus is grey blue with a dark blue centre to the  cap and a rather robust blueish stipe. It is quite robust for an Entoloma.

Patrick Leonard 2019

Geographical distribution