Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap (to 23 mm) low domed to slight central umbo and pinkish-violet hue; wrinkled with outer zone of radial striae; edge crenulate; hygrophanous, drying to a off-white. Gills whitish with a violaceous tinge; adnexed. Stem to 55 x 3 mm, with a violaceous pink tinge that is more pronounced towards the base; hollow and smooth. Spore print white. Spores hyaline in KOH, amyloid in Metzer’s; sausage-shaped and more or less smooth; 6.2-8.0 x 3.0-3.6 um, mean = 7.1 x 3.2 um, N = 20; Qav = 2.2. Gill edge sterile, with abundant cylindrical to laganiform cheilocystidia. No pleurocystidia. Distinguished from M. pearsoniana by its adnexed gills and more elongate spores.

Under Julian's Early apple tree.