Tephrocybe confusa    (P.D. Orton) P.D. Orton 



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

synonyms: Collybia confusa 

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Tephrocybe confusa toxicity of Tephrocybe confusa genus Tephrocybe  

The cap is brown-ochre to clay-brown when dry, convex then flattened, with a central umbo; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is same colour as cap, hollow, widening towards base, without ring.

The flesh is whitish, unchanging; its taste is faint, of cucumber, or of rancid meal; the odour is faint, also of cucumber or of rancid meal; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are dirty white to pale grey, adnate, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 11 ). The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in coniferous and mixed woods.

The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2 cm (between 1 and 3 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 3.5 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 5 mm (between 3 and 7 mm)

Distinctive features : ochre-brown to clayey-brown cap; stem concolorous to cap; taste and odour of rancid meal or cucumber; in coniferous woods

Tephrocybe confusa is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tephrocybe confusa in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tephrocybe confusa in the forest of Rambouillet



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