Tapinella atrotomentosa    (Batsch) Šutara 

common name(s) : Velvet Rollrim, Black-stemmed Roll-rim 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Tapinellaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Boletales/Tapinellaceae  

synonyms: Paxillus atrotomentosus, Paxillus atrotomentosa 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Tapinella atrotomentosa
photo gallery of  Tapinella atrotomentosa potential confusions with  Tapinella atrotomentosa toxicity of Tapinella atrotomentosa genus Tapinella  

The cap is sienna brown. The cap surface is smooth, velvety, non viscid nor sticky.

The stem is dark brown, without ring.

The flesh is white to yellowish, brown in the stem, turning slowly yellow when exposed to air (5 mns); its taste is mild or faint to bitter; the odour is not distinctive to bittersweet; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are cream then ochraceous, decurrent, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 48 ). The spore print is ochre brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows coming in scarce tufts, in mixed or coniferous woods, on dead pine wood or spruce, chestnut.

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 18 cm (between 4 and 30 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 2 and 18 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 35 mm (between 20 and 55 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : gills easily separated from cap, turning brown when touched; bitter flesh; stem sometimes off-centre; velvety cap and stem

Tapinella atrotomentosa is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tapinella atrotomentosa in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tapinella atrotomentosa in the forest of Rambouillet



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