Lepista glaucocana    (Bres.) Singer 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae/Lepisteae [sub-genus:Rhodopaxillus]  

synonyms: Rhodopaxillus glaucocanus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Clitocybe glaucocana, Tricholoma glaucocanum)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Lepista glaucocana
photo gallery of Lepista glaucocana potential confusions with Lepista glaucocana toxicity of Lepista glaucocana genus Lepista  

The cap is whitish to lilac-blue or pale violet-grey, convex then expanded, fleshy . The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is whitish to pale lilac, same colour as the gills, slightly swollen towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white to pale lilac, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is minty to mealy or earthy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are lilac pale to purple grey, adnate to emarginate, crowded . The spore print is pale pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved or coniferous woods, meadows, hedges, along paths, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 9 cm (between 4 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 4 and 9 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 10 and 25 mm)

Distinctive features : entirely lilac-pale to purple-grey, with an odour of menthol (looks like a pallid wood blewit)

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



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