ເຫັດປວກ / Termite Mushroom

Fruit body medium to large size basidiome, fleshy agaric; greyish−white cap with white gills, concolorous stipe with pseudomycorrhiza; solitary, annual, odour indistinctive and edible. Cap: 4 (4.3–6.7) 8cm (n=10), greyish−white, dark−brown umbo, greyish radial fibrils, slimy during wet, smooth in dry condition, initially cone shaped becoming bluntly umbonate, finely striate, margin incurved becoming straight and then uplifted and often splitting. Lamellae: white, free, broad and crowded. Stipe: 6.9 (7.1–11.2) 12.3 x 0.9 (1.0–1.4) 1.5cm (n=10), creamish−white, con−colorous, cylindrical, tapering at the base into a slender psuedorrhiza, solid and fibrillose. Spores: 5.2 (5.5–7.8) 8.1 x 3.9 (4.2–5.2) 6μm (n=10), hyaline, broadly ellipsoidal and thin walled. Fresh weight of mature fruit bodies 10.6g (9.3–15.4 g) (n=10). Substrate: On termite mounds, usually these mounts ll are buried in soil thus the specimen appears embedded in the soil. (Greeshma et al. 2008)