Lyophyllum admissum

General: Inhabiting coniferous forests (particularly pines), fruiting among needle litter, pileus depressed, hygrophanous, brown with a whitish margin, farinaceous odor and taste, and notably large spores.

Pileipellis: Cutis composed of filamentous hyphae 3-5 µm wide, interwoven, with pale brown intracellular pigment, separated by gelatinization, septate with prominent clamp connections.

Lamellar edge: Fertile, lacking differentiated cystidia.

Basidia: Clavate, 29-36 x 5.5-8.5 µm, containing siderophilous granules, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores: Ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, pointed and slightly curved at the apicular end, 9-12.5 x 4-5.5 µm, containing oil droplets, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Notes: Very similar to Lyophyllum ozes, which differs in having distinctly smaller spores (5.9-8.1 x 3.1-4.2 µm).

Herbarium voucher: JTP2671/25.