Melanoleuca strictipes

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-09-07.

Gills, moderately spaced, white to cream sometimes slightly tinged pinkish

Convex to broadly convex and slightly umbonate, smooth, dry, white to cream or pallid, slightly darker center, margin smooth or slightly wavy

Adnexed to almost free

Slender, tall, cylindrical, bulbous base, pale cream to tan, smooth, with a fibrous texture, without a ring

Spore print white, cream or yellowish

Saprobic, growing in nutrient-rich soil or grassy areas, often found in meadows, gardens, and woodland clearings, spring to autumn

Said to be edible but little information exists and potential misidentification possible

Fruit body medium-sized, stipe 8–14 cm long, 0.8–1.2 cm thick

Cap 4–10 cm in diameter

Odour mildly fragrant, sometimes slightly sweet

Taste slight, smell strongly of meal

Spores elliptic,minutely warted, amyloid, 8–9 x 4.5–5 µm, basidia 4-spored

Medium-sized, saprobic mushroom with a slender, fibrous stipe and a pale cap

1951). In Pilát, Klíc Kurc. Naš. Hub Hrib. Bedl. (Praha): 157.

Pirita jõeoru maastikukaitseala, Harjumaa, Estonia

Mixed wood, near road on mossy sand dune

59°28'05.4"N 24°50'47.5"E

🔆 Bright noon sun, partial forest shade