Gliophorus lilacipes
Horak
Description:
PDD 88178, PDD 88045
This is a classic Gliophorus in the lilac–green complex: a medium‑sized, strongly glutinous, colour‑shifting forest waxgill with a distinctive lilac stipe apex, green‑blue pileus, and a gelatinised cheilocystidial thread forming a sterile gill edge.

Note: As with other Gliophorus, colour shifts arise from water‑soluble pigments, underlying less soluble pigments, and UV‑labile dyes. The green‑blue → blue‑ lilac transitions fading are consistent with pigment leaching in wet conditions and photodegradation in exposed basidiomes. This is independent of hygrophany.
Pileus: 15-45 mm diam., initially hemispherical, later plano‑convex; very old specimens broadly umbilicate. Colour deep green‑blue when fresh, fading to blue‑brown or greenish‑blue, typically darker at centre. Surface glutinous, glabrous, strongly hygrophanous; margin striate when moist.
Lamellae: broadly adnate to decurrent, distant, lilac‑blue to greenish-blue, fading with age. Gill edge distinctly sterile, bearing a gelatinised grey thread formed by densely interwoven cheilocystidia.
Stipe: 20-60 x 2-5 mm, cylindric, equal or slightly attenuated upwards, apex lilac; base yellowish to ochraceous. Entire stipe glutinous; hollow; single.
Context: deep lilac in upper stipe, becoming reddish on drying. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Odour/tast: Not recorded

Common name: None
Habitat: Lowland podocarp, Nothofagus forest
Substrate: Saprobic, growing from soil
Distribution: New Zealand wide
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: White
Macro images:
Gliophorus lilacipes
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Scale= 7.6 mm.
 
Gliophorus lilacipes
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Scale= 7.6 mm.
 
Gliophorus lilacipes
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Scale= 6.2 mm.
 
Gliophorus lilacipes
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PDD 117482    Scale=6.5 mm.
 
Gliophorus lilacipes
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Scale= 7 mm.
 
Gliophorus lilacipes
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Scale= 5 mm.
Notice that the gills are decurent only G. versicolor mention above also has decurent gills
 
These pink ones are rather interesting. It's possible that the lilac colouring is dominating the fruiting body.
Gliophorus lilacipes
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Scale= 5.5 mm.
 
Gliophorus lilacipes
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Scale= 8 mm.
 
Gliophorus lilacipes
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PDD 99311    Scale= 5 mm.
 
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