Hypholoma lateritium    (Schaeff.) P. Kumm. 

common name(s) : Brick Tuft, Brick Cap 

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

synonyms: Hypholoma sublateritium, Naematoloma sublateritium, Psilocybe sublateritia, Geophila sublateritia 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Nematoloma sublateritium)  

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of Hypholoma lateritium
photo gallery of Hypholoma lateritium potential confusions with Hypholoma lateritium toxicity of Hypholoma lateritium genus Hypholoma  

The cap is brick red; its margin is with white veil remnants. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is whitish or yellowish towards top, reddish at the base, with a ring zone (cortina remains).

The flesh is pale yellow (brownish in the stem), unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is unpleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pale yellow to greenish grey then purple grey, adnate, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 30 ). The spore print is purple brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on wood (also on the ground, on buried wood), in tufts, in broad-leaved woods, on oak, beech, birch.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 1 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 10 cm (between 4 and 20 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 4 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : spores become yellowish brown in potash.

Distinctive features : brick-red cap at the centre; ochre margin, often with yellow flakes of veil; cortina present on top of stem; grey-yellow to greenish gills; pale yellow to whitish flesh; on dead deciduous wood

Hypholoma lateritium is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hypholoma lateritium in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hypholoma lateritium in the forest of Rambouillet



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