Agaricus crocopeplus Berkeley & Broom

Image location: Mwanza, Tanzania

Found one single, lone, solitary, mature specimen growing under some hedges, soil without wood chips or noticeable mulch, the soil was sandy.

Cap; 2cm across, round, surface covered with spaced patches of soft, bright, orange, plentiful, cotton like, patches. center with greater concentration and radiating outward toward margin, patches on margin delicately hanging downward, cuticle under patches yellow colored, Dome shaped, rounded, not conical, without umbo, fairly thick looking, surface fibrous.

Flesh in stalk same color as gills, smoky or brown gray, not staining. Odor absent or very faint.

Gills close with many intermediates at margin of cap, distinctly free from stipe, evenly gray-brown, gills very thin and quite plentiful.

Spore deposit color; dark brown-smoky brown Stalk length about equal to cap width, 2cm long, slender and bare near apex, thickening suddenly about 5mm down from the apex or about 1/5 the length, to about 4mm wide(thick)where the surface changes, tapering slightly towards base at which is a small knob,

Color; near apex bare and brown-smoky brown, nearly same as gill color, about 1/5 way the way down is a fine cobwebby veil remnant darkened by the spores, at this same point and downward the stalk is yellow with very small patchy lightly orange fibrous coating that is much lighter then cap surface, the overall color of stalk is yellow, 

hollow centered, flesh brown.

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