Tricholoma saponaceum

Under conifers or broadleaf trees, with a hemispherical to convex-flattened cap, 3 to 9 cm in diameter, with a slightly scaly surface of variable color ranging from olivaceous to greyish-brown, adnate yellowish gills, a cylindrical to clavate stipe, slightly scaly, with a soapy odour and a sweet to slightly bitter taste.

Filamentous cuticle formed by intertwined cylindrical hyphae, 3 to 8 µm wide, those of the scales with abundant greyish-brown pigment inside, septate and mostly clamped.

Without cystidia.

Lamellar trama regular or parallel.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 20 to 30 µm long by 4.5 to 7 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and tetrasporic.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an eccentric apiculus at one end, 5 to 6.5 µm long by 3 to 4.5 µm wide, with oil drops of varying sizes inside, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.