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Cap 1-2 cm;

Stalk central, 2-3 cm long x 3-10 mm diameter.

Basidiospores 3-6 x 2-4 µm, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent; chlamydospores 13-20 x 10-20 µm, with light brown thick walls and spines, inamyloid.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature

Small white mushrooms growing on caps of Russula or Lactarius which are sometimes too degenerated to identify, covered in tan-brown powdery asexual spores

Nutritional Mode

On mushrooms, particularly Russula and Lactarius

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