Tubaria furfuracea    (Pers.:Fr.) Gillet 

common name(s) : Scurfy Twiglet 

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

synonyms: Tubaria segestria ss.auct. 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Tubaria furfuracea
photo gallery of Tubaria furfuracea potential confusions with Tubaria furfuracea toxicity of Tubaria furfuracea genus Tubaria  

The cap is red-brown to pale buff; its margin is striate when moist, with white veil remnants. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is same colour as cap, very thin, with base covered with white down, without ring.

The flesh is red brown to pale buff, unchanging; its taste is faint; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are yellow then brown-rusty red, adnate, distant . The spore print is pale ochre. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood or on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, parks, gardens.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 0.5 and 4 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 3 mm (between 1.5 and 5 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : very hygrophanous, getting strongly paler; slender stem

Tubaria furfuracea is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tubaria furfuracea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tubaria furfuracea in the forest of Rambouillet



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