Macrolepiota excoriata

General: Typical of pastures, meadows, and forest clearings, pileus flattened with a prominent central umbo, whitish with hazel-brown scales flaking away toward the margin, membranous annulus, pleasant odor, sweetish taste.

Pileipellis: Composed of cylindrical, filamentous, hyaline hyphae with slightly fusiform emergent terminal elements up to 200 µm long and 10-15 µm wide, containing pale brown intracellular pigment, septate with simple septa (clamp connections absent).

Cheilocystidia: Clavate to fusiform, 35-60 x 9-15 µm.

Pleurocystidia: Absent.

Basidia: Clavate, 35-45 x 10-16 µm, base simple (clampless), 4-spored.

Spores: Ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, thick-walled, 11-16.5 x 7-8.5 µm, with an eccentric apiculus and a distinct apical germ pore, strongly dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.