Phaeolepiota aurea (Matt.:Fr.) Konrad & Maubl.
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common name(s) : Golden Bootleg
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Dermolomataceae
synonyms: Pholiota aurea, Pholiota vahlii
(unconfirmed synonyms: Phaelepiota aurea)
edibility : discard
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The cap is tawny yellow to ochre; its margin is with white veil remnants.
The cap surface is finely scaly or powdery-mealy, a bit radially wrinkled, not viscid nor sticky.
The stem is white above ring, ochre below, with a ring.
The flesh is dull yellow, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is mealy;
its texture is fibrous.
The gills are whitish then ochre-brown, adnate, crowded .
The spore print is rusty brown. This species is saprophytic.
It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, parks, gardens (under stinging nettles), more often on high ground.
The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Dimensions: | width of cap approximately 15 cm (between 3 and 25 cm) |
| height of stem approximately 12 cm (between 4 and 20 cm) |
| thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 1 and 50 mm) |
Distinctive features : dry and matt cap surface, powdery, wrinkled; sheathing ring, large, becoming rusty with spore deposits; often with nettles
Phaeolepiota aurea is rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Phaeolepiota aurea in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18