Cystolepiota seminuda    (Lasch:Fr.) Bon 

common name(s) : Bearded Dapperling 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Agaricales/Lepiotaceae/Lepioteae  

synonyms: Cystolepiota sistrata, Lepiota sistrata, Lepiota seminuda, Cystoderma seminudum 

edibility : unknown edibility

photo gallery of Cystolepiota seminuda
photo gallery of Cystolepiota seminuda potential confusions with Cystolepiota seminuda toxicity of Cystolepiota seminuda genus Cystolepiota  

The cap is white to cream, more flesh pink centre, hemispherical then conical-convex, with a central umbo; its margin is with veil flakes. The cap surface is mealy, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is white, washed with pink towards base, mealy, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant, very weak; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, adnate, distant (nb of gills per 90° ~ 13 ). The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in wood edges, forest path sides, moist bushes, often under stinging nettles, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1 cm (between 0.5 and 3 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3 cm (between 1.5 and 6 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 1.5 mm (between 1 and 2.5 mm)

Distinctive features : White with pink tinge, particularly towards stem base, thin; veil remnants on cap margin when young; pinkish flesh in stem base; mealy stem and cap

Cystolepiota seminuda is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Cystolepiota seminuda in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Cystolepiota seminuda in the forest of Rambouillet



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