Family: Entolomataceae

Fungi:> Basidiomycota:> Basidiomycetes:> Agaricales:> Entolomataceae:> Entoloma, Rhodocybe, Unidentified. Fruiting body shape - Collybioid - Mycenoid - Omphalioid - Tricholomatoid.

This family is distinguished from others family's by having pink angled spores. The entoloma genus in particular is large with over 60 named species and there seams to be lots of undescribed species. In an attempt to get this group into some sort of order these pages have been divide up according to fruiting body shape. Its has come to my notice that the keys I have been using to identify the brown entoloma's had a number of errors in it. This presently places some doubt over the names given. Unfortunately the original collections are now in our National Herbarium (PPD) who wont let me borrow them back for rechecking!

Genus: Entoloma (Collybioid Shaped)
Collybioid - similar in shape to Collybia species having a convex or plano-convex cap with a blunt or slightly depressed centre and adnate to free gills.

Species: Entoloma brunneolilacinum
Common Name: None Found: Lowland podocarp-broadleaved forest Substrate: Ground Spores: Pink	Height: 50 mm Width: 40 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma cerinum
Common Name: None Found: Leptospermum Scrub Substrate: Ground Spores: Pink	Height: 80 mm Width: 60 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma glaucoroseum
Common Name: None Found: Lowland podocarp-broadleaved forest Substrate: Mossy ground Spores: Pink	Height: 40 mm Width: 20 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma deceptivum
Common Name: None Found: Podacarp forest. Substrate: Ground Spores: Pink	Height: 60 mm Width: 25 mm Season: Late summer Edible: No

Species: Entoloma decolorans Horak
Common Name: None Found: Mixed forest. Substrate: Ground Spores: Pink	Height: 60 mm Width: 25 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma gracile
Common Name: None Found: Mixed forest. Substrate: Well rotten wood Spores: Pink	Height: 80 mm Width: 15 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma melanocephalum
Common Name: None Found: Nothofagus Forest Substrate: Forest floor Spores: Pink	Height: 60 mm Width: 30 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma niveum
Common Name: None Found: Leptospermum forest Substrate: Forest floor Spores: Pink	Height: 60 mm Width: 40 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma phaeomarginatum
Common Name: None Found: Lowland podocarp-broadleaved forest Substrate: Forest floor Spores: Pink	Height: 50 mm Width: 30 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma strictum
Common Name: None Found: broadleaved forest Substrate: Ground Spores: Pink	Height: 50 mm Width: 40 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma squamiferum Horak
Common Name: None Found: Lowland podocarp-broadleaved forest Substrate: Mossy ground Spores: Pink	Height: 60 mm Width: 25 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma sulphureum Horak
Common Name: None Found: Lowland podocarp-broadleaved forest Substrate: Mossy ground Spores: Pink	Height: 50 mm Width: 15 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Entoloma uligincola
Common Name: None Found: Nothofagus Forest Substrate: Ground Spores: Pink	Height: 80 mm Width: 20 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Sequestrate Fungi

Genus: Richoniella

Species: Richoniella pumila
Common Name: None Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Partly buried in ground Spores: Pink	Height: 25 mm Width: 30 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

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