Entoloma catalaunicum

[SheffieldLass]

I'm pretty confident on this one. October 5th last year on unimproved grassland North York Moors. Only just got round to looking at the micro details I took at the time and finally determining the fungus. It does key out easily once the blue edge to the gills is spotted, given the pink colours to the cap and stem, and the blue on the lower part of the stem, and the violaceous edging to the cap. This did not have the typical slightly unpleasant Entoloma smell, but a nice fragrant flower sort of smell. My photo and the vegetation it is growing with is uncannily very similar to the photo in Nordeloos's Entoloma monograph 5a pg 1311



Showing blue edge to the gills.

I thought that the ground it was on was acid upland unimproved grassland, and that is certainly true for the other side of the track, but the vegetation on this does look more neutral, and the track is limestone chippings, and the geology/soils in this area is very mixed up there, some calcareous fens nearby. I'll have to look more closely ...

I didn't find any clamps. Spores were (8.6) 9.2-10.4 (10.7) x (6.6 ) 6.9-7.9 (8.4)um, Qav 1.3. I didn't find any encrusting pigment, so that tallies. I didn't record the gill edge details so can't confirm with the cheilocystidia details. I'm not sure whether I kept a dried specimen though. My study was in upheaval at the time, so possibly not. It isn't neatly filed away where it should be, that is for sure ... If I didn't keep it, it got put on my lawn, which does have a few Hygrocybe and Entoloma naturally, and it is a neutral soil, (well the very same mixed geology as the fungus site, with acid and neutral running though my garden) so maybe .....

If I've got this correct, it is on red data list, as near threatened. Some Yorkshire records though.

Cheers
Melanie