Galerina paludosa (Fr.) Kühner
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common name(s) : Bog Bell
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Strophariaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Crepidotaceae
edibility : unknown edibility
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The cap is brown yellow to ochre-red, hemispherical; its margin is striate when damp and with veil remnants hanging.
The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.
The stem is same colour as cap, with a ring zone.
The flesh is pallid, unchanging; its taste is mealy; the odour is mealy;
its texture is fibrous.
The gills are yellow then yellow-rusty red, adnate, crowded .
The spore print is rusty. This species is saprophytic.
It grows on the ground, in very damp areas : amongst sphagnum, swamps, peatlands.
The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: | width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 3 cm) |
| height of stem approximately 12 cm (between 7 and 20 cm) |
| thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 2 and 4 mm) |
Distinctive features : Dull brown cap with a striate margin and velar remnants; veil forming a kind of ring zone and belts around stem; gills almost concolorous to cap; with sphagnum in wet places, swamps, peat bogs
Galerina paludosa is quite rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Galerina paludosa in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18