Entoloma chloroxanthum
G. Stev. 1962
Description:
A striking green-yellow Entoloma with fibrillose pileus and slender green stipe, fading to yellow with age.

Pileus: 5-20 mm, convex to depressed or subumbilicate, finally expanded. Colour deep green when young, fading to yellow toward the strongly striate margin. Surface dry, hygrophanous, covered with concolorous squamules or fibrils.
Lamellae: 24-32 reaching stipe, 1-3 lamellulae, adnate to emarginate‑decurrent, moderately distant, beige‑greenish at first, turning pink with age, edges entire and concolorous.
Stipe: 25-40 x 1-2 mm, cylindrical, slender, deep green to yellow‑green, with white basal mycelium, glabrous, dry, fistulose, solitary.
Context: green‑yellow.
Odour/taste: not distinctive.

Common name: None
Habitat: Lowland podocarp-broadleaved forest
Substrate: Saprobic on soil
Distribution: New Zealand
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: Pink
Macro images:
Entoloma glaucoroseum
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Scale= 3.75 mm.
Young fruiting bodies that show their convex caps. As these age, the cap becomes depressed in the centre.
Entoloma glaucoroseum
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PDD 87991    Scale= 3.3 mm.
 
Entoloma glaucoroseum
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PDD 88002    Scale= 3.6 mm.
 
Entoloma glaucoroseum
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Scale= 4 mm.
 
Entoloma glaucoroseum
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Scale= 4 mm.
 
Entoloma glaucoroseum
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Scale= 4 mm.
 
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