Cystolepiota adulterina (Moeller) Bon syn. Lepiota adulterina Møll. Heckenschirmpilz. Cap 1.5–2.5cm across, conico-convex, initially beige and scurfy with a few cottony warts, later disrupting into thick mealy ochraceous warts on a pale cream ground, velar remains adhering to the margin. Stem 30–40 x 2–4mm, whitish to pinkish with a scurfy beige covering below the ring zone. Flesh whitish in cap, vinaceous towards the base of the stem. Gills cream. Cheilocystidia inconspicuous, thin-walled, clavate with pointed apex. Spore print white. Spores narrowly elliptic to subcylindric, 4–6 x 2–2.5um. Surface of cap covered with small, thin-walled globose cells 15–30m in diameter. Habitat broad-leaved woods amongst scrub; ash, nettle, dog’s mercury. Season late summer to autumn. Rare. Suspect – avoid. Found In Europe. |