Entoloma sericellum
| Entoloma sericellum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Entolomataceae |
| Genus: | Entoloma |
| Species: | E. sericellum |
| Binomial name | |
| Entoloma sericellum | |
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Entoloma sericellum is a species of mushroom-forming fungus belonging to the family Entolomataceae.
The cap grows up to 5 centimetres (2 in) wide.[1] It is dry, white, and covered by tiny fibrils.[2] The gills are white and fragile.[2] The stipe is up to 5 cm long,[1] thin, white, and sometimes translucent.[2] The cap and stipe yellow in age, while the gills turn pinkish from the spores as they mature.[2]
The species appears in conifer and hardwood forests in North America.[2][3] It is inedible.[3]
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Entoloma sericellum | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
  | Hymenium is adnate or adnexed |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is pink |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
  | Edibility is unknown or inedible |
- ^ a b Arora, David (1986) [1979]. Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. pp. 252–53. ISBN 978-0-89815-170-1.
- ^ a b c d e Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
- ^ a b Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.