Hypholoma elongatum    (Pers.:Fr.) Ricken 

common name(s) : Sphagnum Brownie 

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

synonyms: Nematoloma elongatipes, Hypholoma elongatipes, Psilocybe elongata, Nematoloma elongatum, Nematoloma polytrichi ss.Konr. 

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Hypholoma elongatum toxicity of Hypholoma elongatum genus Hypholoma  

The cap is honey yellow to olive green when damp, ochre when dry; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is same colour as cap, paler towards top, very long and thin, with the base covered with white down, without ring.

The flesh is yellow whitish, unchanging; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are whitish then olive yellowish, adnate, distant . The spore print is dark brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) very damp woods, amongst sphagnum, moss, peat.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1.5 cm (between 0.7 and 3 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 3 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 1.5 mm (between 1 and 3 mm)

Distinctive features : very long and slender; distant gills

Hypholoma elongatum is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hypholoma elongatum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hypholoma elongatum in the forest of Rambouillet



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