Gymnopus dryophilus    (Bull.:Fr.) Murrill 

common name(s) : Russet Toughshank 

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

synonyms: Collybia dryophila, Marasmius dryophilus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Collybia xanthopus)  

edibility : discard

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

The cap is whitish to buff brown. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is tawny-brown, darker towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant, of sawdust; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white to yellow, adnate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (and sometimes coniferous) woods and also in parks, gardens, on a rather variable soil, under various trees (oak, beech, but not only).

The fruiting period takes place from April to March.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 9 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 4 mm (between 2 and 5 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : White to pale buff cap, with a darker centre, hygrophanous; thin, bright orange-brown stem, darker towards base; white to cream gills, rather crowded

Gymnopus dryophilus is frequent and present everywhere in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Gymnopus dryophilus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Gymnopus dryophilus in the forest of Rambouillet



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