common name(s) : Bulbous Fibrecap
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Inocybaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Inocybeae
synonyms: Astrosporina napipes
edibility : poisonous
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The cap is hazelnut brown to dull brown, with a central umbo.
The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.
The stem is bulbous, without ring.
The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive;
its texture is fibrous.
The gills are adnate, crowded .
The spore print is tobacco brown. This species is mycorrhizal.
It grows on the ground, on a rather acid soil, with birch.
The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: | width of cap approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 5 cm) |
| height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 7 cm) |
| thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 5 and 10 mm) |
Chemical tests : none.
Distinctive features : umbonate cap, with radial fibrils; strongly bulbous stem, whitish at its base and apex; tinted with brown in between
Inocybe napipes is quite rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Inocybe napipes in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18