Nolanea verna
Key to Gilled Mushrooms KeyThis 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.
Agaricales OrderFruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)
Pink Spored SuborderSpores pink or reddish
Entolomataceae Family
Nolanea GenusCap up to 2" across; acutely conical when young, sometimes becoming umbonate in age; often silky but not scaly
Dull colored (shades of greyish brown) or brightly colored (usually yellow or salmon orange), but not really darkly colored
Gills barely attached to the stalk, sometimes appearing free
Stalk thin, fragile
Dull Nolaneas SectionCap dull greyish brown, up to 2" across
The caps of these are apt to flatten out somewhat, becoming umbonate or almost flat in age
Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.
Diagnosis
- Cap dark brown, fading to tan
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Stalk only slightly longer than the cap is wide
Microscropic Characters
- Spores 8-11 x 7-8 µm, typically 6-sided
Comments
There are actually several Nolaneas (Arora (1986) lists seven others) that are impossible to tell apart without a microscopic examination of things like spore and cystidia size. In fact, they are so many similar ones that no one knows for sure how many different ones there really are. This is just the standard "umbrella" name for them
