Gymnopus erythropus    (Pers.:Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel. 

common name(s) : Redleg Toughshank, Red-stemmed Collybia 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Marasmiaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Marasmiaceae/Collybieae  

synonyms: Collybia erythropus, Marasmius bresadolae, Marasmius erythropus, Collybia marasmioides, Collybia kuehneriana 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Collybia erythropoda, Collybia bresadolae)  

edibility : discard

photo gallery of  Gymnopus erythropus
photo gallery of  Gymnopus erythropus potential confusions with  Gymnopus erythropus toxicity of Gymnopus erythropus genus Gymnopus  

The cap is pink to red-brown, convex then expanded, sometimes depressed; its margin is often wavy, striate when damp. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is red-brown, without ring.

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

The gills are white to cream yellow, adnate, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 20 ). The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on wood (also on the ground, on buried wood), in tufts, in broad-leaved woods, on dead wood.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 3 cm (between 1 and 6 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 2 and 5 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : slightly hygrophanous cap, thin and flattened, transparent when wet; slender and crooked stem, pale towards the top and reddish-brown downwards, with reddish mycelial chords at the base

Gymnopus erythropus is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Gymnopus erythropus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Gymnopus erythropus in the forest of Rambouillet



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