pleuro-and cheilo-cystidia present, ventricose, yellow in fresh specimen
morphology summary
Notes
Growth habit: single Approx. specimen age: mature Height of entire specimen:35 Length of stem: 30 Width of cap: 23 Height of cap at center: 5 Width of stem at apex: 10 Widest width of stem: 11 Odor: mild/none Taste: mild/none Cap surface color: shades of olivaceous-brown and gray with slightly darker colored margin Cap flesh color: pale yellow, almost white Cap is not hygrophanous and lacks latex Cap surface texture: dry,smooth Cap shape: broadly convex with slight incurve along margin Margin shape: straight, even Cap flesh constistency: fleshy Stem surface color: light yellow almost dingy Stem flesh color: bright to pale yellow,almost white as you move inwards to the center of the stem Stem shape: ventricose, kind of tapered at the base Stem texture: smooth, smooth with minute reddish-brown scales at the top of the stem and lessen as move towards base. Stem consistency: firm, solid Gill color: bright ( sulphur-like) yellow with lighter yellow gill edges Gill attachment/edge shape: adnate/ entire Gill staining/bruising: stain green slightly but over a long period of time (hours) Microscopic gill characters: pleuro-and cheilo-cystidia present in abundance along different areas of the gill ( edges/hymenium layer). 4-sterigmate basidia that produce inamyloid, thick walled, poreless, elliptical spores(5-12 length*2.5-5width) Spore print color: brown sort of olive Volva/veil: both absent Chemical reactions: no change with Meltzer's reagent, KOH on cap surface= dark red color, KOH on cap flesh= slight browning