Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis    (Bull.:Fr.) Singer 

common name(s) : The Goblet 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Clitocybeae  

synonyms: Clitocybe cyathiformis, Cantharellula cyathiformis 

edibility : edible

photo gallery of Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis
photo gallery of Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis potential confusions with Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis toxicity of Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis genus Pseudoclitocybe  

The cap is orange yellow to brown, or steel grey. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is brown to grey, without ring.

The flesh is white, watery, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are whitish grey, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic.

The fruiting period takes place from October to March.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 0.3 and 9 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 4 and 12 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 5 and 20 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : depressed or funnel-shaped cap, dark grey-brown, hygrophanous; inrolled margin, faintly striate or smooth; decurrent forked pale-grey gills; late in the season

Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis in the forest of Rambouillet



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