Inocybe lanuginosa

Inocybe lanuginosa (Bull.:Fr.) P. Kumm.

common name(s) : Scaly-Brown Inocybe

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Inocybaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Inocybeae

synonyms: Inocybe lanuginosa-lanuginosa, Inocybe longicystis, Inocybe ovatocystis, Inocybe lanuginosa-ovatocystis

edibility : inedible

The cap is cinnamon brown to dark reddish brown, darker at the centre, convex then flattened; its margin is with remains of cortina in young specimens. The cap surface is downy, radially fibrillose, with slightly erect brown scales, especially at the centre, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is brown scaly like the cap, smoother towards top.

The flesh is whitish in the cap, brownish in the stem, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, slightly unpleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are beige whitish then cinnamon-brown, adnexed to adnate-emarginate, rather distant (nb of gills per 90° ~ 12 ). The spore print is tobacco brown. This species is mycorrhizal or saprophytic. It grows on wood, on rotting coniferous wood, on a rather acid, damp and peaty soil, with pine, spruce, birch.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.

Dimensions:	width of cap approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 7 cm)
	height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
	thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 3 and 10 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : dark brown cap, with radial fibrils and upturned scales near centre; brown woolly stem except near top; in wet areas under conifers

Inocybe lanuginosa is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .

here should be the distribution map of Inocybe lanuginosa in the forest of Rambouillet

Above : distribution map of Inocybe lanuginosa in the forest of Rambouillet

page updated on 14/01/18