Leucopaxillus lilacinus (Purple Turnover)

Leucopaxillus lilacinus (Purple Turnover) Mycorrhizal

Cap (pileus): 40-100 mm broad, convex with strongly inrolled margin, expands to flat-convex or centrally depressed with the incurved margin.

Gills (lamellae): adnate to subdecurrent, crowded, up to 7 mm deep, some with interconnections (anastomosing), cream, bruising and ageing to rusty-brown. Abundant shorter gills (lamellulae).

Stem (stipe): 20-60 x 10-22 mm, stout-clavate (widening at end) or cylindrical, solid. Pale purple, same colour as cap, white at top and bottom where rusty stains often occur.

Basal mycelium: white

Spore deposit: white

Comments:

On the ground in litter of eucalypt forests and plantations, forming clumps or scattered groups.

A fleshy robust species which is purple and white with distinctive in-rolled cap margin. Other Australian species Leucopaxillus eucalyptorum with more brown tones