Infundibulicybe squamulosa

A species associated with conifers, with a centrally depressed cap bearing minute fibrillose scales.

Pileipellis filamentous, composed of hyaline hyphae, 5-9 µm wide, arranged more or less parallelly to slightly interwoven, with abundant brown surface incrustations, septate and clamped.

Cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent.

Basidia clavate, 25-34 µm long and 4-7 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal to amygdaliform, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a very prominent curved apiculus at one end, vacuolar internal content, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2280/24.