Entoloma peralbidum
Horak
Description:
white umbilicate species with inrolled margin, fimbriate gills, and articulated cheilocystidia; in NZ forest and shrubland.

Pileus: 10-40 mm diam., umbilicate, with the margin persistently inrolled (never upturned). Pure white when young, later becoming pinkish. Surface innately fibrillose, occasionally tomentose at the centre; dry; striate near the margin.
Lamellae: broadly adnate to decurrent, sinuate, white, turning deep pink with age. Edges white, fimbriate, densely crowded.
Stipe: 25-50 x 3-4 mm, cylindrical, sometimes eccentric. White and waxy, becoming yellowish in age. Dry, glabrous, but with a dense white basal weft. Fistulose.
Context: white.
Odour/taste: acidulous.

Common name: None
Habitat: Lowland podocarp-broadleaf forest
Substrate: Saprobic on soil
Distribution: North Island
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: Pink
Macro images:
Entoloma peralbidum
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Scale= 5.3 mm.
 
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PDD 87847    Scale= 7.3 mm.
 
Entoloma peralbidum
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Scale= 8 mm.
 
Entoloma peralbidum
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Scale= 10 mm.
Micro images:
Entoloma peralbidum Pileus
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Magnification = 400x
Pileus: A cutis of repent cylindrical hyphae 6 to 12µm long with out pigment. Comment: In two colections that were looked at to photograth, the cutical hyphae had become a tangled mass.
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Magnification = 400x
Lamellae: Cheilocystidia clavate or lageniform 40-80 x 12-18 µm.
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Magnification = 1000x
Basida: Size 35-40 x 10 µm. 4 spored.
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Magnification =1000x
Spores: 5-6 angled. Size 9-11 x 6-7.5 µm.
 
 
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