Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap 90 mm, depressed centrally and with inrolled margin; outline irregular; yellow brown mottled surface (patches of darker brown fibrous mesh over a more yellow-brown flesh). Gills dense, strongly decurrent; cream-coloured with rusty gill edges and blotched sides but becoming brown where damaged or handled; branching common; lateral buttressing of the gills developed towards the edge. Stem short and stout (40 x 16 mm) tapering downwards; fibrillose; dry; hollow; bottom of stem black when sectioned.

Spore print a slightly orange brown. Spores hyaline in KOH, staining brown in Metzer’s; ellipsoidal; 7.5-8.6 x 4.8-5.8 um; mean = 8.1 x 5.2 um, N = 12. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia occasional, with cylindrical to weakly conical tip.

Under a small yew tree: single specimen.