Pholiotina teneroides    (J. E. Lange) Singer 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Bolbitiaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Bolbitiaceae  

synonyms: Conocybe blattaria, Conocybe teneroides, Pholiotina blattaria ss.Kits vanWav., Conocybe vexans, Conocybe togularis 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Pholiota teneroides)  

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Pholiotina teneroides toxicity of Pholiotina teneroides genus Pholiotina  

The cap is orange-red to red-brown; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is dark brown, with a ring.

The flesh is whitish in the cap, unchanging; its taste is mild; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are ochre then red brown, adnate, crowded . The spore print is red brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, parks, gardens.

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1.5 cm (between 0.7 and 2.5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 1.5 mm (between 1 and 2 mm)

Distinctive features : conical or bell-shaped cap, hygrophanous, getting paler from the centre, with a striate margin; white sliding and striate ring, located about half way up the stem

Pholiotina teneroides is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .



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