Tubaria dispersa

Species mycorrhizal with hawthorn (Crataegus), with a convex to flattened cap, 6 to 14 mm in diameter, with a smooth pale cream to orange surface, adnate to decurrent yellow gills, a whitish cylindrical stipe darker at the base, and without noticeable odour or taste.

Filamentous cuticle formed by hyphae arranged more or less parallel, thin- to slightly thick-walled, 5 to 15 µm wide, hyaline or with a light brown pigment inside, septate with clamp connections at the septa.

Cheilocystidia abundant, cylindrical, lageniform to clavate, 16 to 30 µm long by 5 to 10 µm wide.

Basidia clavate, 20 to 25 µm long by 5 to 7.5 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and two or four sterigmata (bi- or tetrasporic).

Spores ellipsoidal to subamygdaliform, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a poorly prominent eccentric apiculus at one end, 6 to 7.5 µm long by 3.5 to 4.5 µm wide, with one or more oil or lipid drops inside, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.