Lepiota thrombophora (Berk. & Broome) Sacc. Small to medium fruit body, pale, conico-campanulate to convex, umbonate agaric bearing densely crowded yellowish-brown appressed granular squamules on the cap, whitish gills and central hollow, white stipe with reddish tints, and membranous annulus attached at the apex (Figure 21). Annual, rare, particolous, with a taste and odor not distinctive, and inedible. In small groups on soil under Memecylon umbellatum. Pileus 2.8–4.6 cm in diameter and stipe 4.2–5.6 cm tall × 0.5–0.8 cm thick. Basidiospores are hyaline, smooth, ellipsoidal, and 13.1–15.8 × 3.3–4.2 µm. Notes: Found in the coffee agroforest of the Western Ghats of Karnataka (Karun and Sridhar, 2016a). Accession # LethWGMRF.

Published as part of Chinnappa Karun, Namera & Ramaiah Sridhar, Kandikere, 2025, Glimpses of Rare and Infrequent Macrofungi in Southwest India, pp. 1-34 in Species (e 22 s 3123) (e 22 s 3123) 26 (77) on page 15, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v26i77.e22s3123, http://zenodo.org/record/20144507