Paralepista flaccida

Species showing a preference for coniferous woods, exceptionally under broadleaved trees, with a depressed, funnel-shaped pileus 3 to 8 cm in diameter, orange-brown, with an undulating margin, decurrent cream lamellae, and a cylindrical stipe enlarged at the base, pale brown and coated in whitish pruina.

Pileipellis composed of filamentous, cylindrical, thin-walled hyphae, hyaline or with faint yellowish intracellular pigment, 2 to 6 µm wide, arranged more or less parallel to slightly interwoven, septate with clamp connections.

Lamellar edge fertile, lacking differentiated cystidia.

Lamellar trama regular to parallel.

Basidia cylindrical-clavate, 22 to 32 µm long, 4 to 6 µm wide, clamped at the base, 2- or 4-spored.

Spores subglobose to ovoid, hyaline, with a verrucose to spinulose wall, 4.5 to 5.5 µm long, 3.5 to 5 µm wide, with an almost imperceptible hyaline apiculus, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.