Phaeolepiota aurea    (Matt.:Fr.) Konrad & Maubl. 

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

potential confusions with  Phaeolepiota aurea toxicity of Phaeolepiota aurea genus Phaeolepiota  

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 .
here should be the distribution map of Phaeolepiota aurea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Phaeolepiota aurea in the forest of Rambouillet



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