Baeospora myosura    (Fr.:Fr.) Singer 

common name(s) : Conifercone Cap, Mousetail Collybia 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Marasmiaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Marasmiaceae/Collybieae  

synonyms: Collybia myosura, Collybia conigena, Baeospora conigena 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Baeospora myosura
photo gallery of Baeospora myosura potential confusions with Baeospora myosura toxicity of Baeospora myosura genus Baeospora  

The cap is brownish ochre to pink brownish. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is flesh pink to brownish, without ring.

The flesh is brownish, unchanging; its taste is more or less bitter; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are whitish, adnate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows, with pine, spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from September to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2 cm (between 0.5 and 3 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 1.5 mm (between 1 and 2 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : on spruce or pine cones, stem base with hairy root; pallid margin

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



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