Dermoloma pseudocuneifolium?

[SheffieldLass]

I found this in pouring rain yesterday in cattle grazed, basic unimproved grassland. Just the one snatched photo (and with an Entoloma too , well I wasn't too keen to get my camera too wet).


I thought Dermoloma when I turned it over, but it had an un-Dermoloma smell, at least of the Dermoloma I'm accustomed to, farinaceous, like a polite Entoloma.

So I checked the cap, and it was a hymeniderm. So looking good for Dermoloma.
Hymeniderm

Spores blue in Melzers.

Then did a gill squash in Melzer's. Spores blueing nicely so definitely amyloid. Spore sizes (6.7) 6.9-7.9 (8.6) x (3.6) 4.0-4.9 (5.0)um, Qav 1.7.
As the fungus showed no signs of reddening or blackening, it keys out to Dermoloma pseudocuneifolium. Which is a first for me, and appears to be only the second in Yorkshire too. So I'm running it past you lot to see whether you agree with my id.

Thanks
Melanie

[SheffieldLass]

Well I've just got round to putting the details into my records ..... so any takers?

Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

looks fine to me - look, you're doing all the work; with carefully put together notes like yours and (one assumes) voucher material kept, I have no problems as a county recorder with accepting this (you should see some of the interesting - but unsupported - records I am currently wrestling with while producing the Yorkshire county list!)

interesting to see, when looking at the GB records of D. pseudocuneifolium at what good company are you are in - quite a number of records of this have been made by Richard Fortey - yes that!!!! Richard Fortey - author of (amongst others) the superb book "Trilobite"

and he's a good mycologist as well . . . . . makes you want to spit!

best

Chris

PS- just sent you an email on another matter . . . .