Lyophyllum palustre    (Peck) Singer 

common name(s) : Sphagnum Greyling 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Lyophyllaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Lyophylloideae/Lyophylleae  

synonyms: Sphagnurus paluster, Collybia leucomyosotis, Collybia palustris, Tephrocybe palustris 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Lyophyllum leucomyosotis)  

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Lyophyllum palustre toxicity of Lyophyllum palustre genus Lyophyllum  

The cap is pale ochre, grey-brown to blackish-brown with shades of olive green. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The flesh is creamy white, unchanging; its taste is mealy; the odour is mealy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, grey, cream, adnate, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground.

The fruiting period takes place from April to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2 cm (between 0.8 and 3 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 12 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 1 and 5 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : ochre to olive cap, darker in its centre, very striate almost to the centre; smell and taste mealy; only in sphagnum in wet places

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



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