Gymnopus confluens    (Pers.:Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel. 

common name(s) : Clustered Toughshank 

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

synonyms: Marasmius confluens, Collybia confluens 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Collybia ingrata)  

edibility : discard

photo gallery of  Gymnopus confluens
photo gallery of  Gymnopus confluens potential confusions with  Gymnopus confluens toxicity of Gymnopus confluens genus Gymnopus  

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

The stem is white to brown, without ring.

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

The gills are white to cream yellow, adnate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in tufts, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, on a rather acid soil, on litter (with beech, oak, spruce…).

The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 3.5 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 4 mm (between 2 and 8 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : flesh-pink colour; stem thin, darker than cap and easily detached, covered with white down, thicker on top; gills very crowded; in tufts

Gymnopus confluens is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Gymnopus confluens in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Gymnopus confluens in the forest of Rambouillet



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