Eucalyptus Deciever

Especie exótica de Laccaria de color pardo rojizo bastante vivo, más claro o anaranjado con tiempo seco y sombrero estriado por transparencia. El sombrero mide entre 15 y 40 mm. Para su correcta clasificación puede ser necesario un estudio microscópico ( presenta basidios bispóricos ), aunque su hábitat específico suele ser determinante.<br>
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Cap 1.5-4 cm broad, convex, broadly so in age, the disc sometimes slightly depressed to umbilicate; margin incurved at first, finely striate when moist, occasionally uplifted at maturity; surface hygrophanous, smooth to innately fibrillose, reddish-brown fading to buff-brown, sometimes with a darker marginal band; flesh thin, colored like the moist cap; odor faintly fungal; taste mild.
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Laccaria fraterna is characterized by a reddish-brown cap with a finely striate margin which soon fades to buff-brown, flesh-pink gills, and a fibrillose stipe with matted, white mycelium at the base. According to Mueller, Laccaria fraterna is believed to be an introduced species and is associated with ornamental trees like Eucalyptus. Microscopically, Laccaria fraterna is one of only three species of Laccaria that are two-spored. For many years this mushroom was known locally [in California] as Laccaria laccata but that species is 4-spored and of the two varieties of Laccaria laccata, only L. laccata var. pallidifolia is common.