Species: Entoloma sericeum (mushroom seems too small to be Entoloma so it may actually be Nolanea; also species is not certain as it differs somewhat from Nolanea sericia)
Collected by: Amy Hurn
Identified by: Amy Hurn
Cap: 1-3 cm diameter. Young are convex and become more pulvinate with age. Cap margin is generally even but there are 5 equally spaced 'crenations' or small indents around the edge. No veil remnants. Brown color with darker spot in the center.
Cap becomes a bit lighter with age.
Gills: Adnate. Breadth is narrow and spacing is subdistant. Gill edge is uneven, either eroded or crenate.
Gills are paler than cap and are a pinky-brown.
Under microscope gills look moist.
Stalk: 2.5-4.5 cm long, 0.3 cm thick. Even width, but a bit wider at cap and at bottom. Stalk is grayish brown and smooth.
Inside stalk, fibers are white.
Veil: No veil evident
Spore Print: Cinnamon brown
Microscopic Characteristics:
Spores: angular with warts
Collector
Amy Hurn
Number
AH
Other Collectors
Determined by
Amy Hurn
Host Substratum
Notes
Habitat
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Spore print color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap color with age: 8 tan - light brown
Cap stain color: 11 dark brown
Cap width: 13
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Stipe primary color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Stipe secondary color: 15 black or dark gray
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 3
Stipe length: 2545
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Hymenium stain color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Partial veil type: 5 none
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
