Entoloma hirtipes    (Schumach.:Fr.) M.M. Moser 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomataceae  

synonyms: Nolanea hirtipes, Rhodophyllus hirtipes, Rhodophyllus mammosus-typicus, Rhodophyllus mammosus-ss.Romagn., Nolanea mammosa 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Entoloma hirtipes
photo gallery of Entoloma hirtipes potential confusions with Entoloma hirtipes toxicity of Entoloma hirtipes genus Entoloma  

The cap is chestnut brown to chocolate, greyish-brown when drying, conical-convex, with a sharp umbo; its margin is slightly striate. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is grey-brown, fibrillose, white towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mealy; the odour is iodized, of oyster water, fish liver or cucumber; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then pink, adnate to emarginate . The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from March to June.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 10 cm (between 5 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 3 and 10 mm)

Distinctive features : conical and umbonate brown cap; fibrils on stem; odour of iodine; in forests, on calcareous soil

Entoloma hirtipes is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Entoloma hirtipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Entoloma hirtipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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