Cap: 2 – 4 cm, often with small wrinkles, hygrophanous, dark brown when moist drying to ochre buff. Often with a darker zone around the margin as it dries. Gills: Broad, not crowded, adnexed, dark brown. Stipe: 4 – 6 cm x 4 – 6 mm, pruinose, cartilaginous, the same color as the cap or pale ochre. Spores: Dark purplish brown, rough. 12 — 16 x 7 — 9 micrometers, almond shaped, verrucose, with small germ pore. Odor: Rather strong. Taste: Unpleasant. Microscopic features: Basidia four spored, pleurocystidia look like basidia and are dark brown, cheilocystidia abundant, fusoid-ventricose or subcylindric.
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Attributes of Panaeolina castaneifolia
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Scientific Classification of Panaeolina castaneifolia
