Lepiota clypeolaria

General: Associated with both conifers and deciduous trees on basic soils, pileus shaggy-scaly, darker at the disc, with a mild fungal odor and sweetish taste.

Pileipellis: Lined with abundant emergent hair-like terminal elements, 100-400 x 8-12 µm, containing pale brown intracellular pigment, septate and predominantly clamped.

Cheilocystidia: Clavate to vesiculose, 20-35 x 10-16 µm, hyaline.

Pleurocystidia: Not observed.

Basidia: Clavate, 35-45 x 10-13 µm, with basal clamp connections, 2- or 4-spored.

Spores: Ellipsoid to navicular/fusiform, smooth, hyaline, thin- to slightly thick-walled, with a curved lateral apiculus, containing oil droplets, dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.