Hebeloma anthracophilum

A Hebeloma associated with burned soils.

Hyphae of the upper layer of the pileipellis widely separated by gelification, 2-5 µm wide, septate and clamped.

Cheilocystidia cylindrical to very slightly clavate, up to 40 µm long and 4-6 µm wide.

Basidia clavate, 25-35 µm long and 7.5-9 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores fusiform to amygdaliform, thick-walled and only very slightly verruculose, yellowish-brown under the microscope, with darker warts, a distinct, slightly eccentric apiculus at one end, dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.