Spore-print: salmon-pink with flush of cinnamon.
Spores: medium sized, fawn under the microscope, star-shaped with 4-6 prominent angles, 9-10 × 7-9 µm, smooth and with no germ-pore.
Marginal and facial cystidia: absent.
Nolanea sericea (Mérat) P. D. Orton Silky nolanea
Cap: width 25-40 mm. Stem: width 5-9 mm; length 25-50 mm.
Description:
Cap: convex then flattened or with slight umbo, umber-brown with a greyish cast which becomes accentuated as the cap dries out and finally becoming silky-shiny; the margin is incurved and striate at first but on expanding it becomes non-striate with time.
Stem: short, fibrillose, greyish brown, shining and white at the base, very fragile and often snaps just above the soil-level when collected.
Gills: crowded, adnate and pale greyish brown then pinkish brown.
Flesh: with a strong smell of new meal, brownish becoming paler as it dries out.