Tubaria hiemalis    Bon 



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

synonyms: Tubaria furfuracea ss.Romagn. 

edibility : unknown edibility

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

The cap is hygrophanous, reddish-brown to pale ochre (when dry), convex-hemispherical then expanded; its margin is striate. The cap surface is furfuraceous, dry.

The stem is concolorous to cap or paler.

The flesh is reddish brown, unchanging; its taste is pleasant, weak; the odour is faint; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pallid ochre to cinnamon with a paler edge, then red-brown, adnate, rather distant . The spore print is ochre-brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on wood (also on the ground, on buried woodchips or wood debris), in woods, gardens or parks, on soil rich in various plant debris.

The fruiting period takes place from January to June.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 4 mm (between 2 and 7 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Red-brown cap and stem, hygrophanous, with a striate margin; on wood debris; in winter

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



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