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Collybia maculata (Fries) Kummer Spotted tough-shank
Cap: width 80-130 mm. Stem: width 5-20 mm; length 50-158 mm.
Description:
Cap: white but soon becoming spotted with reddish-brown, finally cream-colour with red-brown blotches, convex then becoming flattened, fleshy, firm and tough.
Stem: white becoming streaked red-brown, thickest in the middle, longitudinally furrowed or striate and often narrowed downwards into a long irregular root embedded in the deep litter.
Gills: very crowded, cream-coloured, becoming spotted red-brown with age.
Flesh: with pleasant smell, white and fibrous in the stem.
Spore-print: pinkish cream-colour.
Spores: small, almost spherical, hyaline under the microscope, about 5 µm in diameter (4-5 × 5 µm) and not blueing when placed in solutions containing iodine.