Catathelasma imperiale (Fr.) Singer |
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Leucopaxilloideae/Biannulariae synonyms: Armillaria imperialis, Biannularia imperialis, Armillaria imperiale, Catathelasma imperialis edibility : discard
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The cap is brown yellow to dark brown; its margin is with white veil remnants, often wavy. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is short (shorter than cap diameter), pointed at the base, deeply buried into the ground, with a ring. The flesh is whitish, unchanging; its taste is mealy, of cucumber, then slightly bitter; the odour is mealy or of cucumber; its texture is fibrous. The gills are whitish then pale ochre, adnate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in coniferous (sometimes deciduous) woods, in mountainous regions, on a rather calcareous soil, with pine, spruce. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Distinctive features : double ring, funnel-shaped; decurrent gills Catathelasma imperiale is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
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