Taxonomy

Entoloma farinosum Gates et Noordeloos (2012)

Red List Status -


Description

Pileus: convex to conical with a blunt apex; 5- 17 mm diameter; dry; tomentose fibrillose; dark grey brown; margin sulcate.

Stipe: cylindrical; 10 - 80 × 1 - 2 mm; dry; tomentose; brown.

Gills: adnate; distant, 20 - 25 reaching stipe; dark grey brown with a white fimbriate edge,  turning pink with age.

Flesh: white.

Smell: none or farinose.

Spore print: pink.

Spores: nodulose; 12 - 20 × 9 - 10 µm; smooth.  

Notes: this fungus is recognised by its dark grey brown tomentose fruit body and its remarkably large nodulose spores.

Patrick Leonard 2019

Geographical distribution