Galerina hypnorum    (Schrank:Fr.) Kühner 

common name(s) : Moss Bell, Moss Galera 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Strophariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Crepidotaceae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Galerina decipiens, Galerina hypnicola, Galerina obscurata)  

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with  Galerina hypnorum toxicity of Galerina hypnorum genus Galerina  

The cap is honey-brown to pale yellowish-ochre, campanulate to convex; its margin is grooved. The cap surface is smooth.

The stem is ochre yellowish towards top, dark brown towards base, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mealy; the odour is mealy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are ochre brown, adnate, distant . The spore print is ochre. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, amongst moss.

The fruiting period takes place from April to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1 cm (between 0.4 and 1.5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3.5 cm (between 1.5 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 1 mm (between 1 and 2 mm)

Distinctive features : ochre-yellow cap turning becoming brown when drying, with a striate margin; stem pruinose on top, dark brown towards base; mealy odour and more especially taste; among moss

Galerina hypnorum is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Galerina hypnorum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Galerina hypnorum in the forest of Rambouillet



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