Armillaria cepistipes    Velen. 

common name(s) : Mullet Honey Fungus 

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

synonyms: Armillaria cepestipes 

edibility : discard

potential confusions with  Armillaria cepistipes toxicity of Armillaria cepistipes genus Armillaria  

The cap is ochre brown to cream. The cap surface is scaly, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is bulbous, with a fragile and short-lived ring.

The flesh is unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is rather unpleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then stained with red, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic, sometimes parasitic. It grows on wood, sometimes still alive, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 10 cm (between 6 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 5 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : fragile and short-lived ring, striate margin; thin and bulbous stem

Armillaria cepistipes is rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Armillaria cepistipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Armillaria cepistipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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