Cyptotrama aspratum (Berk.) Redhead & Ginns Canad. J. Bot. 58: 731 (1980) [=Armillaria asprata (Berk.) Petch. Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Peradeniya) 4: 386 (1910)]

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Cyptotrama aspratum, an agaric with bright orange cap, covered by prominent conical warts; gills and spore print white. On wood. RARE.

• Pileus/cap

  1-5cm diameter, in Australia, usually 1-3cm . Lemon yellow to orange, bristling with conical warts of paler colour. These warts consist of tiny spines sticking together at the tips. Pileus is knob-like at first, then flattening and sometimes becoming depressed in the centre. The margin is definite: a paler lemon-orange felted-woolly edge.

• Lamellae/gills

  White to yellow, rather distant, adnate to decurrent.

• Stipe/stem

  1.5-5cm with parallel sides, curving slightly at the base. White to lemon-yellow, warty.

• Ring

  Web-like but soon disappearing.

• Spores

  Spore print: white.

• Habitat

  On dead wood, in wet forests.

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