| Species name | Entoloma chalybaeum |
| Common name | Indigo pinkgill |
| Cap | 1-5cm, conical > bell-shaped > convex (sometimes depressed), becomes cracked and then finely scaly, dark steel blue, smooth with radial fibrils |
| Gills | Adnate-emerginate, pale-blue > grey-pink , fairly distant |
| Stipe | 2-5cm, whooly at base, flattened in centre |
| Growth form | Solitary or small groups |
| Spore print | Pale pink |
| Spore features | Angular (5-9 sides) |
| Habitat | Unimproved grassland |
| Season | Summer-Autumn |
| Distribution | Widespread, common |
| Identifying feature | |
| Similar species | Entoloma serrulatum is similar but has black-spotted finely serrated gill edges. |
Irish Grassland Fungi 