Pholiotina arrhenii    (Fr.) Singer 

common name(s) : Ringed Conecap 

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

synonyms: Conocybe arrhenii, Pholiotina togularis, Conocybe togularis ss.Kühn., Pholiotina blattaria ss.Kühn 

edibility : unknown edibility

photo gallery of  Pholiotina arrhenii
photo gallery of  Pholiotina arrhenii potential confusions with  Pholiotina arrhenii toxicity of Pholiotina arrhenii genus Pholiotina  

The cap is ochre to red-brown, hygrophanous, conical to expanded, more or less umbonate; its margin is striate. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is whitish to silver-cream, with a white, median, membranous ring, striate on the upper part.

The flesh is whitish to pallid, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are clay-brown to brown, adnate, crowded . The spore print is red brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rich soil, on roadsides, in mixed woods, parks, grassland.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 3 cm (between 2 and 5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 6 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 4 mm (between 0 and 5 mm)

Distinctive features : membranous ring, skirt-shaped, striate above, whitish and placed mid-height; reddish-brown hygrophanous cap, with a furrowed margin

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



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