Pholiotina aporos    (Kits van Wav) Clémençon 



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

synonyms: Conocybe aporos 

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Pholiotina aporos toxicity of Pholiotina aporos genus Pholiotina  

The cap is ochre to red-brown; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is paler than the cap, with a ring.

The flesh is brown, unchanging; its taste is mild, not distinctive; the odour is weak, of geranium; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are ochre then red brown, adnate, crowded . The spore print is red brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in clearings of deciduous (sometimes coniferous) woods, parks, grassland, on a rather clayey-calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from January to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 4 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 1 and 5 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : dry cap surface; ring on stem; in spring

Pholiotina aporos is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Pholiotina aporos in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Pholiotina aporos in the forest of Rambouillet



page updated on 14/01/18