Entoloma sericellum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Entolomataceae
Genus: Entoloma
Species:
E. sericellum
Binomial name
Entoloma sericellum
(Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871)
Synonyms
  • Agaricus sericeus ß sericellus Fr. (1818)
  • Alboleptonia sericella (Fr.) Largent & R.G.Benedict (1970)

Entoloma sericellum is a species of mushroom-forming fungus belonging to the family Entolomataceae. It appears in conifer and hardwood forests.[1]

The cap is dry, white, and covered by tiny fribrils.[1] The gills are white and fragile.[1] The stipe is thin, white, and sometimes translucent.[1] The cap and stipe yellow in age, while the gills turn pinkish from the spores as they mature.[1]

The species is inedible.[2]

References

Entoloma sericellum
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnate or adnexed
Stipe is bare
Spore print is pink
Edibility is unknown or inedible
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
  2. ↑ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.


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