Galerina badipes    (Fr.) Kühner 



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

edibility : deadly poisonous

potential confusions with Galerina badipes toxicity of Galerina badipes genus Galerina  

The cap is yellowish-ochre; its margin is striate when moist, with white veil remnants. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is blackish-brown in lower part, with a ring zone.

The flesh is whitish to ochre-brown, unchanging; the odour is not mealy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are yellow then yellow-rusty red, adnate, distant . The spore print is red brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1.5 cm (between 1 and 2.5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 3.5 and 4.5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 2 mm (between 1.5 and 2.5 mm)

Distinctive features : furrowed cap, conical or bell-shaped; stem soon blackish from the base; non mealy odour; faint ring; in wood litter

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



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