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(e) Agarics of urban areas—lawn and parkland agarics

Nolanea staurospora Bresadola

Cap: width 20-40 mm. Stem: width 3-5 mm; length 45-70 mm.

Description:

Cap: bell-shaped at first then expanded, hygrophanous, date-brown, striate when moist but pale fawn or tan and non-striate when dry, and usually becoming quite silky-shiny.

Stem: slender, fragile, greyish brown, silky fibrillose-striate and shiny.

Gills: almost free, crowded and pale greyish brown when young, but finally flesh coloured.

Flesh: brownish and smelling very strongly of meal when cut or broken between the fingers.