Hypholoma subericaeum    (Fr.) Kühner 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Strophariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Strophariaceae  

synonyms: Naematoloma subericaeum 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Psilocybe dichroa, Nematoloma subericaeum)  

edibility : unknown edibility

photo gallery of Hypholoma subericaeum
photo gallery of Hypholoma subericaeum potential confusions with Hypholoma subericaeum toxicity of Hypholoma subericaeum genus Hypholoma  

The cap is yellowish-ochre to brownish orange-red, with a central umbo; its margin is striate when damp with age. The cap surface is smooth, lubricated.

The stem is white to honey yellow, without ring, with a cortina.

The flesh is white in the cap, ochre in the stem, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, of grass or mould; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are yellowish grey then purple brown, with white edge, adnate, distant (nb of gills per 90° ~ 11 ). The spore print is dark brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in damp coniferous woods, swamps, ditches.

The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 0.5 and 5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 2.5 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 1.5 and 4 mm)

Distinctive features : conical or umbonate cap when mature, red brown to tawny ochre coloured, getting paler when drying without veil remains and striate when old; lilac-grey gills; yellow-white stem, browner towards base; in very wet areas

Hypholoma subericaeum is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hypholoma subericaeum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hypholoma subericaeum in the forest of Rambouillet



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