Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap to 65 mm diameter; initially low domed with inturned margin, but becoming flat to concave in largest forms with flat rim and no umbo; surface viscous and slimy; cream-coloured, sometimes slightly darker pale brown at the centre. Gills rather dense with ca. 60 complete gills, a pale fawn colour when fresh, becoming a light brown; ; gill edge finely frayed; adnexe; no speckling of gills (and no drops). Stem flesh-coloured with white fibrous flecks along its entire length; to 85 x 9 mm; slightly bulbous at the base with some short, fine, white rootlets; dry; hollow in cross-section, but without a descending tongue from the cap; no ring. Slight radish smell.

Spore print a reddish-brown colour. Spores fusoid and tapered at both ends; pale yellow-brown; staining darker reddish brown in Metzer's; finely granular surface and rather thick-walled; no perispore; 9.8-11.2 x 5.0-5.9 um; mean = 10.3 x 5.4 um, N = 20; Q = 1.9. Cheilocystidia abundant, long and cylindrical with a very slightly enlarged head (gently clavate); width at tip 4.5-7.0 um mean = 5.5; width midlength 4.1 mm. No pleurocystidia or caulocystidia.

In grass within open wooded areas; adjacent to silver birches and between cotoneaster and bramley apple trees. Occasional.