Entoloma sericellum is a species of mushroom-forming fungus belonging to the family Entolomataceae. It appears in conifer and hardwood forests.[1]
Entoloma sericellum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Entolomataceae |
Genus: | Entoloma |
Species: | E. sericellum
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Binomial name | |
Entoloma sericellum | |
Synonyms | |
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The cap is dry, white, and covered by tiny fribrils.[1] The gills are white and fragile.[1] The stipe is thin, white, and sometimes translucent.[1] The cap and stipe yellow in age, while the gills turn pinkish from the spores as they mature.[1]
The species is inedible.[2]
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editEntoloma sericellum | |
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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 |
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.