Appearance
The smooth cap is 5–15 cm wide mottled grey to brownish grey colour, with darker splotches tending to be around the edge. Often covered in a whitish powder. Cap shape in younger specimen tends to be round and becomes convoluted with age, with the cap edge pointing downwards.The stipe is 1.5–4 cm high and up to 0.4-1.5 cm wide and has no ring nor volva. Often hollow the stipe ranges from white at the top to grey at the bottom with older specimen being grey
The gills are white tending to pale yellow-grey in older specimen. the gills densely packed, can be free or slightly sliding to the stipe.
The flesh is thin and rubbery, and does not break easily, especially the stipe. It has no discernible smell or taste prior to cooking.
White spore in bulk. Spores 4.5-5.5 × 4.5-5.5 μm, globular, smooth, cyanophile, often with central guttula. Tetrasporic, trivial basidia. GAF present in all tissues.
Distribution
''Lyophyllum littoralis'' is found in Mediterranean woodlands, where fruiting bodies appear under conifers, particularly pine, from November to January. They generally appear in clumps connected to the same base, but can also appear individually.Habitat
''Lyophyllum littoralis'' is found in Mediterranean woodlands, where fruiting bodies appear under conifers, particularly pine, from November to January. They generally appear in clumps connected to the same base, but can also appear individually.References:
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