Description:
Basidiocarps medium sized,
Pileus 23–35 mm diameter, at first pointed-conical, later expanding to convex with a prominent dark spiniform perforatorium, surface orchraceous brown becoming paler towards the margin, fibrillose silky, margin incurved, and irregularly lobed. Lamellae free, white to creamy, narrow, average, crowded. Stipe 135–240 mm long, 6–28 mm thick, white, solid, cylindrical then swollen slightly at the base before developing a long tapering pseudorrhiza, 30–80 mm long and 2–10 mm thick, longitudinally fibrillose. Spore print creamy. Basidiospores 2.5–6×5–8 μm, smooth, ellipsoid, hyaline in 5% KOH. Basidia 6–10×19–24 μm, 4-spores, clavate, hyaline in 5% KOH. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia numerous, globose to piriform, sometimes clavate. Clamp connections absent.
Reference:
Chinnappa N, Kandikere K, Sridhar R (2013). Occurrence and distribution of Termitomyces (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) in the Western Ghats and on the west coast of India. Czech Mycology65: 233–254.
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