Alboleptonia sericella (Fr.) Largent & R. G. Benedict 1970

Plant / associate
fruitbody of Entoloma sericellum is associated with Poaceae

Plant / associate
fruitbody of Entoloma sericellum is associated with Bryopsida

Guidance for identification (German text)

Eccilia nivea Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: 18. 1897
Eccilia suhacus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 100. 1907.
Pileus thin, submembranous, hemispheric or very convex, slightly umbilicate, 1-2.5 cm. broad ; surface smooth, finely appressed-fibrillose, white ; lamellae thin, rather broad, distant, arcuate, short-decurrent, white, becoming salmon-colored; spores ellipsoid, angular, uniguttulate, rose-colored, 10-12 X 6-8 m; stipe slender, fragile, equal or slightly tapermg upward, glabrous, stuffed or hollow, white, 2-5 cm. long, 1-2 ramthick.
Type I.OCALITY: Selkirk, New York. Habitat: On the ground in woods or thickets. Distribution: New England and New York.

Eccilia roseoalbocitrina Atk. Ann. Myc. 7: 369. 1909
Pileus strongly convex when young, slightly depressed at the center, becoming expanded with the margin strongly upturned with age, thin, 1-2.5 cm. broad; surface minutely silky with loose, delicate threads, smooth, entirely white, sometimes faintly tinged with yellow at the center; lamellae at first white, then pale-rosecolored or becoming buff on drying, adnate or decurrent, subdistant, slightly ventricose; spores elongate, angular, pale-flesh-colored, 9-11 X 6-9 m; stipe smooth, hollow, cartilaginous, covered with a. delicate, white, velvety tomentum when young, the apex mealy, with tufts of clavate cells when old, 4-6 cm. long, 2-3.5 mm. thick.
TypiS locauty: Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, New York.
Habitat: On the ground.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Eccilia cinericola Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 347. 1907
Pileus thin, fragile, broadly convex, becoming expanded and broadly umbilicate or centrally depressed, 1.2-2.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, slightly scabrous, white tinged with yellow, becoming cream-colored with age; lamellae thick, distant, broad, adnate or slightly decmrent, sometimes slightly sinuate, white, becoming pink, dusted with the spores; spores subglobose, angular, 10-12 X 8-10 /z; stipe subcartilaginous, fragile, hollow, slightly enlarged at the apex, white at first, becoming colored like the pileus, 2-2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick.
Type locaivITy: Boston, Massachusetts.
Habitat: Gravelly ground among grasses, especially where coal ashes have been lying for a
long time.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Entoloma sericellum is a species of mushroom-forming fungus belonging to the family Entolomataceae. It appears in conifer and hardwood forests.

The cap is dry, white, and covered by tiny fribrils. The gills are white and fragile. The stipe is thin, white, and sometimes translucent. The cap and stipe yellow in age, while the gills turn pinkish from the spores as they mature.

The species is inedible.