Laccaria glabripes
McNabb
Description:
PDD 78388, PDD 78385
these are a small, thin‑fleshed, hygrophanous, pink‑toned Laccaria with conspicuously pellucid‑striate caps when wet, distant thick lamellae, a dry reddish‑brown stipe

Cap: 5-25(-35) mm diam.; convex when young, becoming plano‑convex, applanate or occasionally centrally depressed with reflexed margins at maturity. Hygrophanous, non-viscid, conspicuously pellucid-striate when wet, striae extending from margin nearly to centre; slightly sulcate. Surface ± glabrous when wet, becoming sparsely and minutely furfuraceous when dry. Colour flesh-pink to reddish‑brown with a darker disc, drying buff.
Gills: Adnate to subdecurrent, distant, thick, often with numerous short lamellulae; to 6 mm deep; flesh-pink, slightly glaucous.
Stipe: 2.5-6 cm long, 1.5-3.5 mm diam., ± equal; dry, hollow or stuffed; glabrous with a cartilaginous appearance when wet, not distinctly longitudinally fibrillose. Reddish-brown, ± concolorous with pileus centre. Flesh reddish-brown. Basal mycelium white.
Context: Extremely thin in pileus, concolorous with surface; reddish-brown in stipe.
Odour/tast: Not distinctive.

Common name: None
Habitat: Nothofagus and Myrtaceae forests.
Substrate: Ectomycorrhizal on soil
Distribution: New Zealand wide
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: White
Macro images:
Laccaria glabripes

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Scale= 8.3 mm.
 
Laccaria glabripes
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Scale= 5.5 mm.
 
Laccaria glabripes
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Scale= 4.1 mm.
 
Laccaria glabripes
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Scale= 6.3 mm.
 
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