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common name(s) : Chestnut Brittlestem
synonyms: Homophron spadiceum, Psathyrella sarcocephala ss.Lge, Psathyrella variata, Drosophila spadicea
edibility : discard
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The cap is red brown to flesh brown, convex or irregularly flat; its margin is non striate. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white, fibrillose, smooth, without ring. The flesh is pale, concolorous to skin or cream, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white, then beige with salmon pink shades, then eventually brown, free to emarginate or adnate, fairly crowded . The spore print is very dark brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, in tufts, on stumps or at the base of broad-leaved trees and sometimes of conifers, alive or dead, (elm, chestnut…). The fruiting period takes place from October to December.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : red-brown to chocolate brown cap, hygrophanous, turning clayish-brown when dry, with a non striate margin and without traces of veil; reddish-brown gills; in tufts Psathyrella spadicea is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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