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Accession Number
F14054
Genus
Entoloma
Species
nitidum
Species Author
Date
Morphological Description
Cap: 33 mm in diameter, conic/campanulate shape, surface shiny and smooth, color dark blue to purple/black, cap margin smooth and straight to unlifted
Gills: broad, unequal, white to peachy/flesh color, drying to light brown/beige
Stalk: Central, 90 mm long, large in proportion to cap, shrinking largely upon drying.
Stipe 9 mm in diameter at base, 6.5 mm in diameter near apex.
Veil: Absent
Spore Print: Pink to light brown
Microscopic Characteristics:
Spore shape: angled, lumpy spherical spores with point at one end
Collector
Jeremy Pitchford
Number
JP1
Cap shape when mature
1 conical/bell shape
Cap shape in center
Cap shape from above
color of top surface
Secondary color top surface
Cap color with age
Cap stain color
13 blue
Cap width
33 mm
Cap surface texture
2 smooth
Cap stickiness
Cap has concentric zones of color
Cap stalk easily part
Cap hygrophanous
Cap flesh color
Cap flesh stain color
Flesh hardness
Flesh toughness
Flesh fracture
Cap cross section
Cap margin surface
2 smooth
Cap edge
Stipe shape
Stipe core
Stipe position
1 central
Stipe flesh hardness
Stipe flesh toughness
Stipe flesh fracture
Stipe flesh color
Stipe flesh stain color
Stipe primary color
Stipe secondary color
Stipe stain color
Stipe surface texture
Stipe width
6.5-9 mm
Stipe length
90
Gill attachment
Gill collarium
Gill sawtooth edge
Hymenium color when young
Hymenium color when mature
Hymenium stain color
1 white
Gills break from cap
Gills deliquescent
Gills mottled face
Gills secede from stalk
Gills waxy feel
Gills anastomosing
Gills forked
Ring type
Partial veil type
5 none
Ring location on stalk
Ring number
Ring color
Volva type
Volva color
Habit
Taste
Smell
Spore print color
6 pink or salmon
Latex color
Latex stain color
Reaction ammonia color
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
Reaction Melzer's color
Reaction potassium
Spore shape
Spore ornamentation
Spore length
Spore width
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
cap cuticle type
clamp connections
cystidia
morphology summary
Notes
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