Cap: 9-12 cm diam., 0.5-1.2 cm thick. Caps light gray when young; nearly white when mature. Caps convex when young, plane and slightly depressed in the center with age; the margin became more decurved and undulate with age. Cap surface dry and dull.
Stipe: Central, up to about 10.5 cm in length.
Stipes 13 mm wide at widest point and concolorous with cap.
Gills: Short decurrent, extending 0.5-1.1 cm down the stipe, not fragile, off-white in color and increasingly yellowish in age
Veil: Absent.
Microscopic Characteristics:
Basidiospores 5 X 3 µm (n=14)
Cap cuticle: a cutis with many clamped, cylindrical hyphae
Collector
Davinder Sidhu
Number
Other Collectors
Determined by
Davinder Sidhu
Host Substratum
Notes
Lyophyllum connatum looks similar, but lacks the undulate cap margin; hasslightly soapy feel to cap and has brown or tan cap (rather than whitish) color. Clitocybe subconnexa is similar too, but is reported to fruit inspring and has noticeably pink and r
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
Color of top surface: 2 light gray
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 4 yellow/gold
Spore width: 3
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 6 sour
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap color with age: 1 white
Cap width: 912
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe width: 13
Stipe length: 105
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Partial veil type: 5 none
clamp connections: Present
cap cuticle type: Cutis with many clamped, cylindrical hyphae
