How to identify it?
Fruiting Body
Fruiting body small.
Cap
Cap 1-5 cm across, convex, becoming wavy to fluted; violet and buff with age; surface finely hairy-scaly, or nearly bald. Flesh insubstantial, light purple. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Gills
Gills adnexed to shortly decurrent, dark purple or cap-colored, distant.
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Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Hydnangiaceae Genus
Deceivers Species
Amethyst deceiver