Agrocybe paludosa    (J.E. Lange) Kühner & Romagn. 



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

synonyms: Agrocybe elatella, Pholiota praecox-paludosa 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Agrocybe paludosa
photo gallery of Agrocybe paludosa potential confusions with Agrocybe paludosa toxicity of Agrocybe paludosa genus Agrocybe  

The cap is cream to pale leather brown, with a central umbo. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is thin, same colour as cap, bulbous, with a fragile ring.

The flesh is whitish in the cap, browner in the stem, unchanging; its taste is mild, not distinctive; the odour is mealy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pale brown to tobacco brown, adnate, crowded . The spore print is light cigar brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in marshy meadows.

The fruiting period takes place from April to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 1.5 and 4 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 4 and 9 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 2 and 4 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : ochre-brown cap; ascending and membranous but fragile ring; mealy taste and odour; no mycelial cords at stem base; very close to Agrocybe praecox, but appearing only in damp places

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



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