Entoloma sericellum

Entoloma sericellum
Scientific 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.

The cap grows up to 5 centimetres (2 in) wide.[1] It is dry, white, and covered by tiny fibrils.[2] The gills are white and fragile.[2] The stipe is up to 5 cm long,[1] thin, white, and sometimes translucent.[2] The cap and stipe yellow in age, while the gills turn pinkish from the spores as they mature.[2]

The species appears in conifer and hardwood forests in North America.[2][3] It is inedible.[3]

References

Entoloma sericellum
Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnate or adnexed
Stipe is bare
Spore print is pink
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is unknown or inedible
  1. ^ a b Arora, David (1986) [1979]. Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. pp. 252–53. ISBN 978-0-89815-170-1.
  2. ^ a b c d e 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.
  3. ^ a b 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.