Pileus 1.4–5.8 mm in diam., campanulate or hemispherical, obtusely umbonate in the centre, flattening with age, translucent-striate, light pink-salmon (8A3), light coral red (8B7), fading light pink (8A2) or white to the margin, delicately pubescent, glabrescent with age, with a flat margin. Context pure white, thin, fragile. Lamellae decurrent dentate, ascending, sparse, pure white, edges concolorous with the sides. Stipe 46–58 × 0.5–1.0 mm, central, terete, almost equal, hollow, fragile, transparent, pruninose, glabrescent with age, base slightly swollen, with tiny, white, fine hairs. Odourless, taste mild.
Atheniella taoyao is unique in Atheniella because of the light pink-salmon pileus, decurrent lamellae and the two types of caulocystidia.
27 April 2024
