Omphalina pyxidata (Bull.:Fr.) Quél.
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common name(s) : Cinnamon Navel, Pixie Funnel Cap
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae
synonyms: Clitocybe pyxidata
(unconfirmed synonyms: Omphalia pyxidata, Mycena pyxidata)
edibility : inedible
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The cap is red-brown to tawny-brown.
The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.
The stem is brownish red, without ring.
The flesh is pallid, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive;
its texture is fibrous.
The gills are flesh pink to beige brownish, decurrent, distant .
The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic.
It grows on the ground, on a rather sandy soil.
The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: | width of cap approximately 1.5 cm (between 0.5 and 4 cm) |
| height of stem approximately 3 cm (between 1 and 6 cm) |
| thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 1 and 4 mm) |
Chemical tests : none.
Distinctive features : reddish-brown to tawny-red, hygrophanous, strongly translucently striate, on poor soils or sand
Omphalina pyxidata is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Omphalina pyxidata in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18