Galerina triscopa    (Fr.) Kühner 



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

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Galerina triscopa toxicity of Galerina triscopa genus Galerina  

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

The stem is darker than the cap, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are cinnamon brownish, 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 August to October.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1.5 cm (between 0.5 and 2 cm)

Distinctive features : grooved cap, pointy then bell-shaped; stem darker that cap

Galerina triscopa is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .



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