Entoloma     Genus



Cortinarius husseyiKey to Gilled Mushrooms     Key
This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.


TricholomaAgaricales     Order
Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)


Pink Spored     Suborder
Spores pink or reddish


Entolomataceae     Family
Terrestrial (occasionally on rotting wood on the ground)
Gills attached (notched, adnate, or subdecurrent), sometimes almost free in small mushrooms


Entoloma     Genus     (Fries) Kummer




Tricholoma saponaceum

Diagnosis


Narrow down your identification:


Entoloma abortivumEntoloma abortivum
Gills subdecurrent; grey at first, becoming pink with spores
Cap up to 4" across; steel grey with slight tinges of brown or (occasionally) magenta; sometimes a little fibrillose or scaly; margin inrolled
Often growing on rotting wood, around stumps, or in leaf litter


 

 


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