Entoloma porphyrophaeum    (Fr.) P. Karst. 

common name(s) : Lilac Pinkgill 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomataceae  

synonyms: Rhodophyllus porphyrophaeus, Trichopilus porphyrophaeus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Leptonia porphyrophaea)  

edibility : discard

potential confusions with  Entoloma porphyrophaeum toxicity of Entoloma porphyrophaeum genus Entoloma  

The cap is grey-brown to purple grey, convex to conical or bell-shaped then expanded, with a more or less noticeable umbo; its margin is sometimes split with age. The cap surface is smooth, with radiating fibrils, dry, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is concolorous to cap, more purple at mid-height, covered with fibrils and a white down at its base, without ring.

The flesh is white to pale, unchanging; its taste is pleasant; the odour is faint; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are grey-white, then brown, and ultimately dark flesh pink, adnate to emarginate, rather distant . The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in mossy meadows, pastures, humid lawns or clearings, grows more frequently in mountainous areas.

The fruiting period takes place from April to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 8 cm (between 3 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 9 cm (between 3 and 16 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 11 mm (between 5 and 20 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : purple-brown cap, with radiating fibrils; pale gills when young; pale flesh; in humid poor and grassy places

Entoloma porphyrophaeum is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .



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