Tephroderma fuscopallens

An uncommon species with few records in our Peninsula, growing among leaf litter on the ground, with a funnel-shaped (omphalinoid) pileus with a slightly inrolled margin, 2 to 4 cm in diameter, greyish-brown to brownish-grey, darker at the center, decurrent brownish-grey lamellae, cylindrical stipe concolorous with the pileus, fungal odor, and mild taste.

Cuticle formed by filamentous, thin-walled hyphae, arranged more or less parallel to intermixed, 4 to 10 µm in diameter, with some branching, slight greyish-brown intracellular pigment, septate and with clamped septa.

Without cystidia or other sterile elements in the hymenium.

Basidia clavate, 20 to 30 µm long, 4 to 6 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and two or four sterigmata (2- or 4-spored).

Spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a well-defined apiculus at one end, 7.5 to 9 µm long, 4 to 5 µm wide, containing oil droplets inside, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP1920/22.