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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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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 info: |
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Spores purple-brown, angular and warted, 8-9 x 6-70. |
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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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