Lepista sordida    (Schumach.:Fr.) Singer 

common name(s) : Sordid Blewit, Lesser Blue-Foot 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae/Lepisteae [sub-genus:Rhodopaxillus]  

synonyms: Tricholoma sordidum, Rhodopaxillus sordidus, Rhodopaxillus nudus-sordidus, Clitocybe tarda, Rhodopaxillus sordida 

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Lepista sordida
photo gallery of  Lepista sordida potential confusions with  Lepista sordida toxicity of Lepista sordida genus Lepista  

The cap is grey brown to lilac, convex then flat; its margin is slightly striate, often wavy. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is lilac, same colour as cap, without ring.

The flesh is white to lilac, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is non distinctive or faint, pleasant or mouldy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are whitish to lilac, adnate to emarginate, crowded . The spore print is pale pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in small tufts or isolated, in parks, gardens, wastelands, rich meadows and also forests, on a rather variable soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 3 and 13 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : lilac-coloured and hygrophanous mushroom; faint odour; gills easily removed from cap, looking translucent when put close to a source of light; on compost or in parks, gardens, forests

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



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