Clitocybe ditopa    (Fr.) Gillet 

common name(s) : Mealy Frosted Funnel 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae/Clitocybeae  

synonyms: Clitocybe ditopoda, Clitocybe ditopus, Clitocybe odorula 

edibility : discard

potential confusions with  Clitocybe ditopa toxicity of Clitocybe ditopa genus Clitocybe  

The cap is pale grey to brown-grey. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The flesh is brown, unchanging; its taste is faint; the odour is mealy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are adnate to decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, with spruce, pine, Douglas pine.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 3 and 8 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : grey-brown hygrophanous cap, funnel-shaped, pruinose, with an almost white and non striate margin, odour of rancid meal; with conifers

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



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