Macrolepiota clelandii
Macrolepiota clelandii at Hawker, ACT
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| Macrolepiota clelandii | Heino1 | 18 May 2022 | |
| Unverified | NathanaelC | 18 May 2022 |
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2 comments
18 May 2022
Thanks for the ID, I know nothing about fungus; I would have said this was Pluteus lutescens
18 May 2022
Your side-on photo shows that there is a ring of tissue around the stem. That's a remnant of a partial veil (a membrane that covered the gills before the cap expanded). In Pluteus there is no veil. Your top-view photo shows a central area of solid colour and then some paler scales. This mushroom has been battered by rain. Earlier, when it was in prime condition, that scaliness would have continued to the edge, as in the top view of this sighting: https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4434806. There you see the scales in a very regular pattern. As the mushroom matures the cap expands. The cells within the cap expand but in this species those that make up the surface skin don't. Instead the skin breaks up. The expansion is uniform in all directions, so the skin breaks up in a very regular pattern. If you see such a regular pattern of brown(ish) scales over white underlying flesh and the gills are white, then you can assume you have something a Macrolepiota or Chlorophyllum (in the case of large mushrooms) and Lepiota or a related genus (in the case of small mushrooms).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.039569-35.256745
- Altitude 708.0m
- Maps The Pinnacle
- Places Hawker, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 15 May 2022 12:56 PM Recorded on
- NathanaelC Recorded by
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- NathanaelC Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Macrolepiota clelandii Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] Fungi
Species information
- Macrolepiota clelandii Scientific name
- Macrolepiota clelandii Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1291.56m Recorded at altitude
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