Entoloma chalybaeum var. lazulinum    (Fr.) Noordel. 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomataceae  

synonyms: Leptonia lazulina, Entoloma chalybaeum-lazulinum, Rhodophyllus lazulinus, Entoloma lazulinum, Rhodophyllus cyanulus ss.Lge 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Entoloma chalybeum-lazulinum, Leptonia chalybaea-lazulina)  

edibility : poisonous

potential confusions with Entoloma chalybaeum var. lazulinum toxicity of Entoloma chalybaeum var. lazulinum genus Entoloma  

The cap is steel blue to blue black; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The flesh is dark blue, unchanging; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are greyish to blue then pink, adnate, distant . The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in meadows, parks and heaths, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2 cm (between 0.5 and 4 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 2 mm (between 1 and 5 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : cap and stem blueish to blackish-blue; gills blueish

Entoloma chalybaeum var. lazulinum is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .



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