Description:
Basidiomata small 0.5−3.0 cm in diam, white to light grey in colour, with cream dark in center, smooth with glabrous margin, small spiniform perforatorium, and umbo, without papilla, the cap splits from its margins and resembled the petals of flower. Lamellae free, white and crowded, thick, turning creamy at maturity. Stipe central, slender, hollow, white, fleshy fibrous, smooth, 3.0−9.0 cm long and 0.2−0.7 cm in diam, uniformly thick, glabrous, slightly enlarged below soil, absence of annulus and other velar remnants. Pseudorhiza absent. Flesh soft, whitish. Flavor pleasant. Hyphae hyaline, thin-walled, fleshy and soft. Basidiospores 5.0−8.0 µm × 3.0−7.5 µm, ellipsoid, sub-globose, smooth, thin-walled, inamyloid, hyaline. Basidia 17.5−30.0 × 5.0−7.5 µm in size, 4-sterigmata bearing one basidiospore on each sterigma. Cystidia non observed. Hymenophoral trama regular, lamellate, 100−160 µm wide, composed of sphaerocyte and hyphae.
Reference:
Aryal HP, Budhathoki U, Tiwari RD (2014). Termitomyces microcarpus (Berk. & Broome) R. Heim: A New Record from Nepal. The Journal of Mycology and Plant Pathology 44: 113–118.
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