Galerina phillipsii    D.A. Reid 



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

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Galerina phillipsii toxicity of Galerina phillipsii genus Galerina  

The cap is red-brown to dark olive-brown, with a central umbo; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is same colour as cap, without ring.

The flesh is concolorous to cap and stem, unchanging; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are brown to rusty red, adnate, distant . The spore print is brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, amongst sphagnum, in swamps.

The fruiting period takes place from June to July.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2 cm (between 0.8 and 3 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3 cm (between 2 and 4 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 2 and 3 mm)

Distinctive features : olive-brown umbonate cap; cap, stem and flesh concolorous; appearing at the end of spring

Galerina phillipsii is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very rare, more generally speaking .



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