Species:
Lepista nuda
- Scientific name:
- Lepista nuda
- Arabic name:
- الفطر البنفسجي
- French name:
- Pied bleu
- English name:
- Wood blewit
- Habitat:
- Growing alone, scattered, gregariously, or in clusters in organic debris in woods.
- Surrounding vegetation:
- Quercus infectoria.
- Ecological niche:
- Saprobic, on leaf litter in mixed woodland.
- Chromosome Number:
- -
- Genome size:
- -
- Cap:
- Convex with an inrolled margin when young, becoming broadly convex to nearly flat.
- Gills / pores:
- Sinuate and crowded, the gills have a lilac flush when young, turning brown when mature.
- - Stem:
- The non-tapering stipe is solid and often has a swollen (clavate) base, finely hairy near the apex.
- Dimensions:
- Sinuate and crowded, the gills have a lilac flush when young, turning brown when mature.
- - Color(s):
- Young cap is violet-tinged, when mature the violet tinge fades and turns to brown centres
- Texture, other traits:
- Smooth with faint aniseed odour.
- Kingdom Fungi
- Phylum Basidiomycota
- Class Agaricomycetes
- Order Agaricales
- Family Tricholomataceae
- Genus Lepista
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