Geastrum melanocephalum    (Czern.) V.J. Stan?k 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Phallomycetidae/Geastrales/Geastraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Lycoperdales/Gaestraceae  

synonyms: Trichaster melanocephalus 

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Geastrum melanocephalum toxicity of Geastrum melanocephalum genus Geastrum  

The fruiting body is star-shaped, composed of numerous rays, with black to dark brown felty upper surface and a black-brown naked spore sac, without a parchment paper like envelope, brown black.

The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature. The spore print is dark brown.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, with locust, ash.

The fruiting period takes place from August to October.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 15 cm (between 10 and 20 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

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



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