Clitocybe vibecina    (Fr.) Quél. 

common name(s) : Mealy Funnel 

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

synonyms: Clitocybe langei 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Clitocybe orientalis)  

edibility : discard

photo gallery of  Clitocybe vibecina
photo gallery of  Clitocybe vibecina potential confusions with  Clitocybe vibecina toxicity of Clitocybe vibecina genus Clitocybe  

The cap is greyish brown to olive brown. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

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

The gills are whitish grey, decurrent to adnate, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 17 ). The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, with pine, spruce.

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

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : grey-brown to ochre-brown cap, depressed in its centre, striate, not or slightly pruinose; odour of rancid meal; with conifers

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



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