Entoloma incanum    (Fr.:Fr.) Hesler 

common name(s) : Mousepee Pinkgill 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomataceae  

synonyms: Leptonia incana, Rhodophyllus incanus, Entoloma euchlorum, Rhodophyllus euchlorus, Agaricus carneovirescens 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Leptonia euchlora)  

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of Entoloma incanum
photo gallery of Entoloma incanum potential confusions with Entoloma incanum toxicity of Entoloma incanum genus Entoloma  

The cap is yellow-brown to olive green brown . The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is greenish yellow to bright yellow, without ring.

The flesh is greenish, turning blue in the stem when creased; the odour is strong, of burnt corn or mouse droppings; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are greenish white then pink, adnate, distant . The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 1 and 5 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : stem base with white down (mycelium); odour of mice; cap with very dark centre, depressed in its centre

Entoloma incanum is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Entoloma incanum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Entoloma incanum in the forest of Rambouillet



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