Thaxterogaster cretax
(Soop) Niskanen & Liimat. 2022
Description:
A white, rooting, fasciculate Nothofagus‑associated Thaxterogaster with a viscid white cap, very crowded white gills, a tapering rooting stipe, and finely punctate spores

Pileus: 25-60 (to 110) mm, viscid, not hygrophanous. Colour uniformly white, sometimes slightly yellowing at the disc. Surface glabrous to finely innate‑fibrillose; margin thinly felty when young.
Lamellae: White to grey‑white, very crowded, not serrulate.
Stipe: tapering and rooting, white, with a white fibrillose coating, often thinly peronate.
Veil: White, sparse; cortina white.
Context: White
Odour/taste: Odour absent or faintly “paint‑like”. Taste nil.

Common name: None
Habitat: Nothofagus forest
Substrate: On soil
Distribution: New Zealand
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: Brown
Macro images:
Thaxterogaster cretax
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Scale= 9.4 mm.
 
Thaxterogaster cretax
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Scale= 16 mm.
 
Thaxterogaster cretax
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Scale= 10 mm.
 
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