United States, Illinois, Coles, Fox Ridge State Park
Campground trail, near a path in a woods, under ash, sugar maple, white oak, red oak, and shagbark hickory
In bare soil
The Herbarium of Michael Kuo. Mature cap 55 mm. Cap blocky-squarish convex becoming convex with a faint, broad umbo; dry; minutely subsquamulose with golden brown fibrils over a slightly paler ground; KOH yellow.Gills free; close; white in buttons, then pink; lamellulae frequent. Partial veil white, leaving a fragile pendant ring. Stem to about 50 x 5 mm; more or less equal; whitish; fairly glabrous. Flesh white unchanging. Odor not distinctive. 4/10/18: Pileipellis a cutis; elements 3-10 microns wide, smooth, hyaline in KOH--with scattered fascicles of brown-pigments upright hyphae, terminal cells cylindric with rounded apices. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Pleuro-, cheilocystidia not found. Spores 7-9 x 4-4.5 microns; narrowly ellipsoid; smooth; thick-walled; brown in KOH. Spores are a bit long and skinny but otherwise good for A. bellanniae. IX: 281