Hygrocybe pseudoconica    J.E. Lange 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Hygrophoraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Hygrophoraceae [sub-genus:Hygrocybe section:Hygrocybe sub-section:Nigrescentineae]  

synonyms: Hygrophorus nigrescens, Hygrocybe nigrescens, Hygrocybe conica-pseudoconica 

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of  Hygrocybe pseudoconica
photo gallery of  Hygrocybe pseudoconica potential confusions with  Hygrocybe pseudoconica toxicity of Hygrocybe pseudoconica genus Hygrocybe  

The cap is scarlet red, orange to yellow, then eventually black, bell-shaped to conical then expanded, with an acute umbo when flattened; its margin is irregularly lobed. The cap surface is smooth, fibrillose, waxy, silky, slightly or not viscid.

The stem is orange-yellow with a white base, washed wih red, later becoming black from the base up, more or less equal, greasy, without any ring.

The flesh is yellowish in the cap, whitish in the stem, blackening when exposed to air and with age; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then pale yellowish, not blackening that much, emarginate, adnate-ascending to almost free, distant, thick and broad . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in the grass of woodlands, clearings or meadows.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 5 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Scarlet-red, orange or yellow cap, turning black with age; conical cap, or expanded with an umbo, not or slightly viscid; pale yellow gills, distant, broad and waxy; stem and flesh blackening; in the grass of meadows or woodland clearings

Hygrocybe pseudoconica is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hygrocybe pseudoconica in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hygrocybe pseudoconica in the forest of Rambouillet



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