Lepiota clypeolaria    (Bull.:Fr.) P. Kumm. 

common name(s) : Shield Dapperling, Shield-Shaped Parasol 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Agaricales/Lepiotaceae/Lepioteae  

synonyms: Lepiota calubrina 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Psalliota clypeolaria, Lepiota clypeolaria-ochraceosulfurescens)  

edibility : discard

photo gallery of  Lepiota clypeolaria
photo gallery of  Lepiota clypeolaria potential confusions with  Lepiota clypeolaria toxicity of Lepiota clypeolaria genus Lepiota  

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.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 4 and 13 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 3 and 10 mm)

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 .
here should be the distribution map of Lepiota clypeolaria in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lepiota clypeolaria in the forest of Rambouillet



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