Panaeolus fimicola (Fr.) Quél., Mémoires de la Société d’Émulation de Montbéliard 5: 257 (1872) Fig.10
MycoBank number: MB 158646; Index Fungorum number: IF 158646; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03434;
Basionym: Agaricus fimicola Fr., Systema Mycologicum 1: 301 (1821)
Synonym: Coprinarius fimicola (Fr.) P. Kumm., Der Führer in die Pilzkunde: 69 (1871)
Pileus 1.5 – 3.0 cm in diameter, subglobose to convex, rarely papillate, surface sepia, drying brown with a darker marginal zone, striate when moist. Flesh moderately thick, roughly coarse and fibrous. Stipe length 3.0 – 6.0cm × 0.1– 0.5 cm in diameter, slender, cylindric, fistulose, pale- brownish to fuscous, finely striate, equal. Lamellae broadly adnate, grey, soon black, moderately spaced. Spores dark greyish- brown to brownish- black,lenticular, ovate- elliptic, ellipsoid or spindle shaped , smooth, 11.5 – 15.0 × 8.5 – 10.0µm,opaque,truncated by an apical germ pore .Basidia clavate, 4-spored.Lamella edge sterile with crowded cheilocystidia. Pleurocystidia absent.
Ecology and distribution: Vrinda & Pradeep & 2011.
Specimens Examined – July 6, 2018, JNV/Mycl /1026 collected by Charu Panwar,24° 31′ 53.2020” N and 72° 44′ 0.0960” E Mount Abu, 24°53’18.17″N and 72°50’52.58″E Sirohi, elevation: 321 m (1,053 ft.).
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Fig.10 (a) Habit of Panaeolus fimicola on manured soil amongst grass ( b) Fruiting bodies with scale showing lamellae(c)Spores Scale bar =10 µm