Thelephora anthocephala    (Bull.) Fr. 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Thelephorales/Thelephoraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Thelephora anthocephala toxicity of Thelephora anthocephala genus Thelephora  

The fruiting body is rosette-shaped, or an assembly of flattened branches, fused at the base, purple-brown, without any distinctive stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, parks, with oaks, beech, lime.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  total height approximately 3.5 cm (between 1 and 6 cm)
  width of stem approximately 2 mm (between 1 and 3 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Thelephora anthocephala is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Thelephora anthocephala in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Thelephora anthocephala in the forest of Rambouillet



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