Gymnopus fusipes    (Bull.:Fr.) Gray 

common name(s) : Spindle Toughshank, Toughshank, Spindle-shank 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Marasmiaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Marasmiaceae/Collybieae  

synonyms: Collybia lancipes, Collybia fusipes 

edibility : discard

photo gallery of Gymnopus fusipes
photo gallery of Gymnopus fusipes potential confusions with Gymnopus fusipes toxicity of Gymnopus fusipes genus Gymnopus  

The cap is red-brown. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is tapering towards both ends and grooved, tough, rooting, often twisted, darker red towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then purple brown, adnate, distant (nb of gills per 90° ~ 16 ). The spore print is white. This species is parasitic or saprophytic. It grows on wood (dead or not), in tufts, in broad-leaved woods, with oak, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from April to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 2 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 11 cm (between 4 and 20 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 4 and 30 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Brown colour; stem thick, twisted, irregular and deeply rooting, grooved, typically tapering towards both ends with a rooting base fusing with others; very thick gills, distant; hygrophanous cap; grows at tree bases or on stumps, in small tufts

Gymnopus fusipes is very frequent and very widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Gymnopus fusipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Gymnopus fusipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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