Lepiota clypeolaria (Bull.:Fr.) P. Kumm. |
The cap is cinnamon brown at the centre, tawny-yellowish towards margin, campanulate then expanded, with a broad umbo; its margin is with veil flakes, scaly. The cap surface is scaly, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white to brownish, cottony, slightly swollen towards base, with a short-lived ring. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild, not distinctive; the odour is pleasant, of mushroom or acrid-hot; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white, adnate, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in deciduous or mixed woods, on a rather variable soil, with beech, hornbeam, oak, or conifers. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : yellow to reddish umbo; toothed overhanging margin; cottony stem up to the ring, then smooth above it Lepiota clypeolaria is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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