IMI descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria set 128

✍ Scribed by Roland Treu

• Book ID: 104773055
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 884 KB
• Volume: 134
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00437051

✦ Synopsis

Fruitbodies cespitose or in groups. Pileus young semiglobose, soon becoming convex to flat, 2-9 mm diam., white to cream. Gills broadly adnate, whitish to cream. Stipe equal, flexuous, whitish, 20-50 mm long, 0.3-1.0 mm thick, arising from a yellow brown sclerotium, up to 6 mm long. Spores smooth, without germ pore, 3.9-5.2 x 2.6-3.3 #m, L/W = 1.4-1.8, hyaline, not amyloid. Basidia 16-20 x 4-5 #m, with 4 sterigmata, hyaline, with basal clamps. Cheilocystidia absent. Pleurocystidia absent. Hymenophoral trama regular to interwoven. Cuticle a cutis, formed by septate hyphae, 4-9 #m in diameter. Clamps present. Sclerotium formed by hyphae, 5-10 #m in diameter, hyphal walls with yellow pigment, in cross section appearing pseudoparenchymatous.