Tricholoma equestre

Under conifers or broadleaf trees, with a convex to flattened pileus, 5 to 12 cm in diameter, viscid and shiny surface, dark brown on a yellowish-green background, paler at the margin, adnate yellow lamellae, yellowish-brown clavate stipe, farinaceous odor and taste.

Cuticle filamentous, formed by cylindrical hyphae arranged more or less parallel to slightly interwoven, 2 to 5 µm wide, upper hyphae separated by gelatinization, with very abundant brownish intracellular pigment, septate with simple septa.

Without cystidia or other sterile elements in the hymenium.

Lamellar trama regular or parallel.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 20 to 30 µm long, 8 to 9 µm wide, with simple base (without clamp connections), 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a faint eccentric apiculus at one end, 6.5 to 7.5 µm long, 4 to 5 µm wide, with homogeneous contents lacking obvious oil droplets, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.