Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap to 90 mm, depressed centrally and with inrolled margin; that is ribbed and felted; brown mottled surface (patches of darker brown fibrous mesh over a more yellow-brown flesh) when damp. Gills dense, strongly decurrent; cream-coloured becoming brown where damaged or handled; branching common; lateral buttressing of the gills developed towards the edge. Stem stout (40 x 16 mm) tapering downwards; fibrillose; dry; hollow.

Spore print a slightly orange brown. Spores hyaline in KOH, staining brown in Metzer’s; ellipsoidal; 7.5-9.6 x 4.8-5.7 um; mean = 8.3 x 5.0 um, N = 20. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia occasional, lageniform to cylindrical.

A large cluster close to the Silver birch stand. A single individual in the grass next to the 'rocket' yew tree.