Agaricus lanipes    (F.H. Møller & Jul. Schäff.) Konrad & Maubl. 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agariceae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Agaricus luteolorufescens)  

edibility : edible, good

photo gallery of Agaricus lanipes
photo gallery of Agaricus lanipes potential confusions with Agaricus lanipes toxicity of Agaricus lanipes genus Agaricus  

The cap is dark red-brown to chocolate brown (scales) on an ochre background. The cap surface is scaly, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is white above ring, brown below, with a simple ring, superior, white on the upper surface, brown below.

The flesh is turning slowly red at stem top, yellow at stem base (especially old specimens) when exposed to air; the odour is mushroomy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pink to black, free, crowded . The spore print is dark brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, with beech, oak, pine.

The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 8 cm (between 4 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 25 mm (between 15 and 35 mm)

Chemical tests : no reaction to Schaeffer's test.

Distinctive features : cap covered with brown scales; flesh turning pink towards apex of stem, turning yellow towards base; white woolly stem above single ring, and covered with brown scales below ring; stem tapering towards base

Agaricus lanipes is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Agaricus lanipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Agaricus lanipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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