Xerula pudens    (Pers.:Fr.) Singer 

common name(s) : Tall Collybia 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Physalacriaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Dermolomataceae  

synonyms: Xerula longipes, Oudemansiella pudens, Collybia longipes, Oudemansiella longipes, Collybia badia ss.Lge. 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Marasmius longipes)  

edibility : discard

potential confusions with Xerula pudens toxicity of Xerula pudens genus Xerula  

The cap is pale beige to brownish, conical then expanded, with a central umbo. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is brown, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is nutty; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, free, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on a rather calcareous soil, with oak, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2.5 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 14 cm (between 9 and 25 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 8 mm (between 3 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : brown cap and stem, velvety, covered with short tawny hairs; rooting stem, of same colour as cap; distant gills

Xerula pudens is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Xerula pudens in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Xerula pudens in the forest of Rambouillet



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