Hygrocybe unguinosa    (Fr.:Fr.) P. Karst. 

common name(s) : Slimy Waxcap 

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

synonyms: Hygrophorus unguinosus, Hygrocybe irrigata 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Gliophorus irrigatus, Gliophorus unguinosus, Agaricus irrigatus, Hygrophorus irrigatus)  

edibility : discard

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

The cap is brown to grey. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is same colour as cap, without ring.

The flesh is greyish to grey brown, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, adnate, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rather clayey-calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 3.5 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 5 mm (between 3 and 10 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : very slimy; colour not bright

Hygrocybe unguinosa is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .



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