typically has a pinched-off bottom and features an adherent white volva that folds over to form a collarlike rim on the upper edge of the bulb (occasionally also featuring a few loosely clinging concentric rings of volval material). flesh: white throughout; thin; hollowing in the stem; not changing when sliced...
with a large, skirtlike, fragile, whitish ring that usually disappears; terminating in a turnip-shaped basal bulb that often features a tapering "root" (up to cm or more long); with powdery, indistinct volval remnants ; stained bluish to greenish blue near the base. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
tapered slightly to the apex; adorned with a flimsy, yellowish, skirtlike ring that sometimes disappears; whitish; fairly bald; base slightly swollen, covered with yellow, mealy veil fragments that are easily shed and can be found surrounding the stem on the substrate. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
subtropical areas across the globe (especially australia, new zealand, and southern africa). the illustrated and described collections are from north carolina, south carolina, and georgia. immature fruiting body: like a whitish to brownish "egg" up to about cm high; attached to numerous rhizomorphs ; when sliced...
yellowish droplets when young; - pores per mm; tubes yellowish to olive, to mm deep. stem: - cm long; up to cm thick; more or less equal; coarsely and prominently reticulate over the entire length; red, or occasionally with yellow areas; often bruising blue. flesh: whitish to yellow; bluing when sliced...
faintly so at the apex; fairly bald; yellowish above; rose pink to deep pinkish red below, becoming pinkish tan; often bruising blue, then slowly brownish; basal mycelium whitish to pale yellow. flesh: white to yellowish in the cap; yellow in the stem; bluing above the tubes and in the stem when sliced...
matted-hairy to woolly; whitish to pale tan or faintly orangish. undersurface: composed of spines up to mm long; fairly tightly packed; whitish to faintly orangish when fresh, but often darkening or drying to reddish brown; with age often sticking together. stem: absent. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
dry; hairy or roughened; whitish, becoming yellowish with age; sometimes with fine concentric zones of texture. undersurface: spines - cm long; tightly packed; white at first, becoming yellowish with age. stem: absent, but caps often share a whitish basal plate. flesh: white; tough; unchanging when sliced...
; finely suedelike or nearly bald; white, buff, or pale grayish. gills: running down the stem; close or almost distant; whitish at first, then pinkish. stem: - cm long; up to cm thick; sometimes off-center; equal; solid; bald; dry; white or pale grayish. flesh: fairly firm; white; unchanging when sliced...