Category: Fungi

Fruiting body small to medium. Basidiomata 5−9 cm high, solitary to gregarious, white to cream, branched three to four times at the apex; polychotomous below, becoming narrow and dichotomous above, stipe cylindric; apices acute; stipe 1−3 × 0.4−1 cm, distinct, whitish to cream, shortly villose-tomentose. Odor pleasant. Basidiospores 3.8−5.0 × 3.2−4.1 µm, subglobose to ellipsoid, […]

Fruiting body small to medium. Pileus 2-4 cm in diam., conical to campanulate; with distinct yellowish brown to pale brown umbo; surface dry, dull, cream to white; scaly, white, appressed and powdery pileal veil that covering the entire pileus surface; margin plicate-striate, entire, not splitting at maturity; taste and odor not distinctive. Lamellae free, equal, […]

Pileus 1.5-4 cm in diameter; ovoid then conical at young, flat to concave when mature; white, covered by small, red, radially arranged scales, dark reddish brown in the center; surface dry and rough; margin straight, entire. Lamellae white, free, thick, with lamellulae, not bruising or staining when handled. Stipe 4-10×0.2-0.4cm, white, cylindrical, solid, smooth, central, […]

Fruiting body medium. Pileus 30 – 45mm broad, campanulate to plano-convex with brown umbo, appressed, whitish to cream with orange brown to reddish brown concentric circles. Flesh white, thick towards centre, thin at the margin, odour pleasant. Lamellae free, crowded, whitish to cream coloured. Stipe 35-55 x 3-6 mm, cylindrical, hollow, enlarged towards the base, […]

Fruiting body small; Pileus 2.2-3.2 cm in diameter, convex to bell shaped, becoming flat, umbonate, moist, brownish, dark grey to dark blackish on the pileal surface, covered with light, brownish, grey scales on yellowish white background; margin regular, splitting when mature, in-rolled; cuticle can be fully peeled; flesh about  0.1cm thick, cream to white; taste […]

Fruiting body small to medium. Pileus 1-4 cm, conical at first, hemispherical or hemispherical-convex, later campanulate-convex to campanulate-applanate, pubescent to glabrous, glutinous when wet, light ochraceous, brown to yellowish brown, pale brown towards margin, hygrophanous; Lamellae narrowly adnate to almost free, crowded, ventricose, pale yellowish to yellow-brown to rusty brown. Stipe 3-7.5 × 0.2-0.3 cm, […]

Fruiting body small to medium. Basidiomata 5-12 x 0.5-1 cm in diam., cylindrical, unbranched, often flattening, grooved, with blunt apex, pale to dark yellow, fading with age, whitish towards extreme base. Basidiospores 5.7-6.8×4.6-7.5µm, sub-globose to sub-ellipsoid, hyaline, inamyloid, thin-walled. Basidia 40-53×6-7.3µm, clavate to sub-clavate, thin-walled, hyaline, with 4 sterigmata. Hyphal system monomitic, having septate generative […]

Fruiting body small to medium. Basidiomata 4-8×0.3-0.5cm, caespitose, cylindric, unbranched, gregarious, yellow to pale yellow, compressed from center, rugulose, twisted and flexuous, apices blunt to acute, pale yellow; stipe 0.4-2×0.2-0.3cm, slightly larger towards the base, hollow, gelatinous in appearance. Basidiospores 7.2-9.3×6.8-8.3µm, globose, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, uniguttulate, inamyloid; basidia 40-88×7.5-11.3µm, clavate, clamped with 4 sterigmata. Cystidia […]

Fruiting body small to medium. Basidiomata 2.0-6.5×0.3-0.5cm, unbranched, gregarious, in a cluster, whitish to cream, cylindric, becoming flattened, often flexuous; apex acute, sometimes blunt when mature; stipe 0.3-0.5×0.2-0.3cm, slightly narrow, translucent. Odor and taste not distinctive. Basidiospores 4.8-5.6×2.2-3.8µm, ellipsoid, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled, inamyloid; Basidia 28-42×6.5-8.8µm, clavate, with 4 sterigmata. Cystidia not observed. Specimens examined India, […]

Fruiting body medium to large, fleshy. Pileus 6-10 cm in diameter, hemispherical when young, turning to convex to applanate when mature; pellicle brown to dark brown, surface covered with revolute, numerous, loosely floccose, small, brown squamules; context about 8 mm thick in the centre of the pileus, white, turning in to dark brown or reddish […]