The cap As a young specimen, the cap is conic to parabolic in shape and gets flatter and flatter as it ages. The cap is 1.0-1.5 cm in width and is dry but often silky in texture. It is fragile and has a cap height of about 1.0 cm in the young specimens and 0.5 cm in the older specimens. The colouration ranges in the grey-brown spectrum with faint shades of pink and purple and is darker in colour at the center. It is translucent and striate and the margin is very pale with scalloped (crenate) edges. The cap looks like a rounded umbrella with distinct striated lines running down the edges of the cap. There is no distinctive odour in this mushroom species. The gills The gills of this mushroom are quite elegant and distinctive. They are a pale white colour with a reddish purple edge lining each gill (emarginate). They are widely spaced with about 15-20 gills that reach the stem. There are a few subgills between the primary gills. They are adnate with a collarette on the apex of the stype. The gills can sometimes look slighty notched with the collarette but the stype is strongly attached to the cap. In addition, there is no veil present is any of the specimens collected. The stype The stype is a slightly lighter shade of greyish pink and is very narrow. The stype is 2.5-3.0 cm in length and 2.5 mm wide at the base of the stem. The stype is generally uniform in width with a slight narrowing at the apex. It is round shaped (terette), hollow, and has tiny white hairs on the base of the stype. The texture is smooth and fleshy with slightly pale striations. Spore print The spore print of this specimen was very elegant and contained numerous spores. The print was an intense off-white colour and was a very thick layer of spores. Basidia The basidia are the standard club-shape and four-spored with sterigmata. Basidiospores The basidiospores are broadly ellipsoid in shape and are 10-12.5 µm by 6-7.5 µm in size. They very commonly have a sharp point from where they budded off the sterigmata. See pictures below. Cystidia The cheilocystidia of this species are very irregular. They are 27-40 µm by 7-11 µm in size and range in shapes from long and slender, to bulbous and bowling pin-like shapes (fusoid-ventricose). I did not see pleurocystidia but I did extensively search for them to use as a distinguishing characteristic. Chemical reactions Using Melzers reagent, the mushroom species had produced both an amyloid and dextrinoid reaction to starch. The amyloid reaction was a deep blue colour while the dextrinoid reaction was a very orangy-red colour.