Psathyrella squamosa (Karst.) Moser apud Gams syn. Drosophila squamosa (Karst.) Kühn & Romagn. Schuppiger Faserling. Cap 2.5–3.5cm across, ovoid at first becoming conical to expanded bell-shaped, ochre-brown when moist with a broad marginal zone covered in whitish silky fibrils, drying ochre-cream, dingy brown with age. Stem 35–50 x 3–5mm, white, flaky. Flesh ochre-brown, hollow in stem. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills white then ochre-brown finally violet-brown. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia fusoid with slightly thickened yellowish walls when examined in KOH solution. Spore print purplish brown. Spores elliptic with germ-pore, 8.5–9.5 x 4.5–5um. Habitat beech woods. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown -avoid. Found In Europe. |