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Melanoleuca arcuata.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • synonyms: Dunkelbrauner Weichritterling
    Melanoleuca arcuata Mushroom
    Ref No: 8044
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    location: Europe
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Brown, Black or blackish
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Convex to shield shaped
    stem type: Bulbous base of stem
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

    Melanoleuca arcuata (Fr.) Sing. s. Bresinky & Stangl. syn. Tricholoma friesii Bres. Dunkelbrauner Weichritterling. Cap 4–12cm, flattened convex, slightly umbonate or centrally depressed, reddish-brown to blackish-brown when moist drying grey-brown. Stem 30–60 x 5–13mm, bulbous, whitish and mealy at apex, grey-brown and smooth below. Flesh white or tinged ochraceous in cap, brown in stem becoming darker towards the base. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills white. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, lanceolate. Spore print white. Spores elliptic, minutely ornamented, amyloid, 7–9 x 4.5–5.5um. Habitat amongst grass in open woodland. Season autumn. Frequent. Edibility unknown -avoid. Found In Europe.

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