Clitocybe nebularis ?

Dear friends, long time no see.

From Malta (Gozo) I encountered this grey mushroom growing in small clumps in a garden-soil in a park under Cypress trees. It is a Clitocybe (Funnel fungus) with a faint sweet-fruity scent, taste mild-mushroom at first than changes to sharp, bitter-acid....

In the lab:

Spore print pure white

Spore Size

(5.8) 6.4 - 7.3 (7.6) × (4.4) 4.6 - 5.3 (5.5) µm

Q = 1.3 - 1.5 ; N = 29

Me = 6.8 × 4.9 µm; Qe = 1.4

Spore shape: pip-shaped (like orange seeds) with what looks to be a warty surface.

I had high hopes of Clitocybe nebularis but two things are a bit off:

1. Spore width a bit too high (Q is higher for nebularis?)

2. Spores seems warty but nebularis have them smooth.

* Maybe I am sleepy right now, but spore shape is not Entolma-ish right?

.... well, Entolmas has pinkish spore prints, so cant be E.

Otherwise it is a good match.

Dear friends - thank you for helping out. I will do further tests as you kindly suggested and report back. I agree the spores are not of Clitocybe now despite the close resemblance to a C. nebularis - (I thought there are some exceptions). So good to learn this genus is always smooth-spored .

This photo somehow reveals a sinusoidal lamellar attachment (look at the right):

I am back with answers...

So the Spores are truly amyloid and I do not know why they stained best with Melzer rather than IKI!

There are quite interesting - Nettle-hair shaped according to Vellinga or narrow lageniform with muricate/fine crystals at the apex. Here are some images which I also cleaned and turned into illustrations (some original images are included)

basidia have this apparatus at the base, sometimes giving rise to an adjacent cheilocystidium

That's it. Thank you for your help, I follow some old key (like Flora Agaricina Neerlandica) and maybe some recent literature and I report my conclusions.