Brick Tuft

Hypholoma lateritium

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By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Brick Tuft Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P. Kumm. syn. H. sublateritium (Fr.) Quél. (illustrated 40% life size) Cap 3–10cm across, convex; brick-red to reddish-brown at centre, on ochraceous ground; often with fibrillose remnants of veil towards margin. Stem 50–180×5–12mm; pale yellow near the apex, becoming ochre-brown towards the base, and with a cortinal zone near the apex. Flesh pale yellowish, reddish-brown towards stem base; taste bitter, smell mushroomy. Gills pale yellowish-becoming olive-brown. Spores 6–7×3–4.5¼, elliptical with an indistinct pore. Spore print purplish-brown. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, hair-like; pleurocystidia clavate, with beak-like apex. Habitat on stumps of deciduous trees; autumn. Frequent. Not edible.