Inocybe squamata    J.E. Lange 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Inocybaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Inocybeae  

edibility : poisonous

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The cap is tawny brown (scales) on a ochre-yellow background, conical then expanded, with a central umbo; its margin is cracked, splitting. The cap surface is scaly, especially at the disk, covered with a white dew in the youth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is yellowish white to reddish brown, without ring.

The flesh is pallid, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, mushroomy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are whitish, without yellow shades, then brown with lighter edge, rather crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 20 ). The spore print is tobacco brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in parks, edges of woods, grassy and humid places on clayey soils, with poplar, lime, oaks.

The fruiting period takes place from June to October.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 5 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 8 mm (between 6 and 10 mm)

Distinctive features : umbonate cap, with tawny-red tones, scaly at the disk and covered with white dew in the youth; gills white without yellow in the youth; faint odour

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



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