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Thelephora terrestris (Family: Thelephoraceae) |
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Common name: Earthfan  |
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Edibility:  |
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Inedible |
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Size: |
50 - 150 mm |
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Colour: |
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Dingy brown (Sordid) |
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Spore bearing structure: |
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Other |
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Spore colour: |
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Purplish brown |
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Medicinal: |
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Smell / taste: |
Odourless |
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Fruiting season: |
winter |
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General info:  |
Fruit body 3-6cm across, fan-shaped, vertical to horizontal, forming large clustered groups, reddish- to chocolate-brown, darkening to almost black with age, covered in radiating fibres, becoming paler and fringed at the margin. Lower or fertile surface clay-brown to pallid, irregularly wrinkled. |
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Pileus (Cap) / Gill:  |
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Pileus (Cap) shape: |
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Pileus (Cap) decorations: |
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Gill has decurrent tooth: |
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Pileus (Cap) / Gill info:  |
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Spores purple-brown, angular and warted, 8-9 x 6-70. |
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Stem:  |
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Annulus: |
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Stem info:  |
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Lateral, rudimentary or absent. |
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Habitat: |
Grows in woods |
Habitat info:  |
Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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