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(b) Alder-carrs
Naucoria escharoides (Fries) Kummer
Cap: width 12-30 mm. Stem: width 1-3 mm; length 25-45 mm.
Description: [Plate 76].
Cap: pale yellowish ochre, but becoming darker ochraceous with age, scurfy, convex but then flattened, or with its edge upturned; the margin is slightly striate when moist.
Stem: slender, pale to dirty yellowish ochre but darker brown at base, slightly fibrillose, particularly at first because of filaments from a veil, but these are soon lost.
Gills: pale tan to brownish ochre with a paler, floccose margin, adnate and crowded.
Flesh: yellowish ochre but lacking a distinct smell.