Entoloma albotomentosum Noordel. & Hauskn., Z. Mykol.

Entoloma albotomentosum Noordel. & Hauskn., Z. Mykol. View in CoL 55(1): 32 (1989) Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3

Description:— Pileus 0.5–1.7 cm diam., hemispheric when young, becoming convex with a central depression at maturity, pruinose, light pinkish white (10R8/4), margin straight, splitting at maturity. Context thin, light pinkish brown (10R 8/4). Lamellae adnate, thin, narrow, up to 1 mm deep, light pinkish white (10R8/3), distant, with 1–2 tiers of lamellulae, margin entire and concolorous with faces. Stipe 1–2.6 × 0.1–0.3 cm, centrally attached, cylindrical, equal, slightly tapering towards base; context solid, pinkish white (10R8/2), surface pruinose, base slightly broad. Odor and taste not recorded. Spore print not taken.

Basidiospores (9.2–) 9.5–11.1 (–11.5) × (7–) 7.3–8.6 (–8.9) μm, (avl × avw= 10.2 × 7.8 μm,) Q=1.27–1.32, Qav= 1.29, with 7–8 rather blunt angles, thick-walled, apiculate, guttulate. Basidia (27.8–) 28.3–34.6 (–35.5) × (9.4–) 9.8–13.3 (–14.5) μm, sub-clavate, sub-cylindrical to cylindrical, mostly 2-spored, rarely 4-spored, no short cells or clamps present at the base. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis made up of thin-walled hyaline hyphae, 4.1–19 μm diam., septate, branched, hyphal ends obtuse. Stipitipellis a cutis made up of thin-walled hyaline hyphae, 2–13 μm diam., parallel to irregular in arrangement, septate, branched. Clamp connections not observed in any tissue.

Ecology:—Saprotrophic, scattered or in a group in grassy lawns on rich loamy soil.

Material examined:— PAKISTAN. PUNJAB, Lahore, University of the Punjab Lahore , elev. 217 m a.s.l., 1August 2017, Tayyaba Qasim, B-6 ( LAH36551 About LAH ; ITS: PP859461) .