Candolleomyces sp.
Description:
Found growing alone or occasionally in small groups, occasionally on the ground, from buried wood, but more often on course leaf litter. Since I added this to my site, it has been given the working name of Candolleomyces travis.

Pileus -80 mm, convex to plano-convex, light brown to honey-brown, darker at centre covered with veil fragments; hygrophanous, flesh thin smooth fragile, moist, with wavy margin hung with veil fragments when young. Lamellae concolorous with cap. Stipe -80 x 4-6 mm. cylindrical, attenuated towards apex; white fragile. Odour typical mushroom smell. Taste not distinctive. Chemical reactions Not tested Basidia not measured, 4-spored.
Common name: None
Found: Lowland Forest
Substrate: fern tree litter, Nikau palm fronds
Spore: Dark Brown
Height: 120 mm
Width: 60 mm
Season: After rain through out the year
Edible: Unknown but too small and sparse to be worth collocating
Macro images:
Psathyrella sp.
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Scale= 7.5 mm.
 
Psathyrella sp.
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Scale= 7.5 mm.
 
Psathyrella sp.
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Scale= 11 mm.
 
Psathyrella sp.
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Scale= 13 mm.
Micro images:
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Magnification = 1000x
Spores: Typical of the Psathyrella genus these are brown ellipsoid with a roughened surface
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Magnification = 400x
Lamellae: Edge sterile, cheilocystidia abundant cylindrical to clavate.
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Magnification = 400x
Cheilocystidia: abundant cylindrical to utriform; odd is the small noduals scatted over the top surface of the cheilocystidia I ave found no information as to what these could be.
 
 
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