Entoloma caeruleum

Pileipellis formed by broad, parallel hyphae, with abundant encrusting intracellular violaceous-brown pigment, with emerging cylindrical terminal elements, without clamp connections.

Lamellar edge virtually sterile, completely covered with cylindric-clavate cheilocystidia up to 27 µm long.

Basidia clavate, up to 40 µm long, without basal clamp connections, 2- or 4-spored.

Spores angular, 5- to 7-angled, with a prominent lateral apiculus at one end and a large internal lipid guttule.