Laccaria laccata var. pallidifolia
(Peck) Peck 1912
Description:
PDD 78388, PDD 78385
A pale, buff-reddish variant of the Laccaria laccata complex with distant glaucous lamellae and moderately echinulate spores

Pileus: 0.5–2 cm diam.; convex when young, becoming plano‑convex, applanate, or centrally depressed at maturity. Hygrophanous, non‑viscid. Margin faintly to conspicuously pellucid‑striate when wet, striae extending to halfway between margin and disc. Surface glabrous when wet, finely furfuraceous when dry. Colour pallid reddish‑brown, sometimes yellowish‑brown, drying buff.
Lamellae: Adnexed to adnate, distant, intermixed, thick, to 4 mm deep. Colour pallid flesh‑pink, often with pallid yellowish tints, glaucous.
Stipe: 1–2.5 cm long, ± equal; 1.5–4 mm diam. Surface dry, hollow, subglabrous to finely and sparingly longitudinally fibrillose, often finely furfuraceous. Colour concolorous with pileus or slightly darker. Flesh concolorous. Basal mycelium white.
Context: Thin, concolorous with pileus.
Odour/tast: Not distinctive.

Common name: None
Habitat: Nothofagus, Myrtaceae, Lowland podocarp-broadleaf forest and exotic trees.
Substrate: Ectomycorrhizal on soil
Distribution: New Zealand wide
Season: Autumn
Biostatus: Exotic
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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PDD 94184    Scale= 4.1 mm.
 
Laccaria glabripes
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PDD 94184    Scale= 6.3 mm.
 
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