Lepiota ignivolvata    Bousset & Joss. ex Joss. 

common name(s) : Red-Stemmed Parasol 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Agaricales/Lepiotaceae/Lepioteae  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Lepiota ignivolvata
photo gallery of Lepiota ignivolvata potential confusions with Lepiota ignivolvata toxicity of Lepiota ignivolvata genus Lepiota  

The cap is orange to chestnut brown at the centre, disrupting into small ochre-cream scales, with a central umbo. The cap surface is scaly, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is with scales or bands under the ring, bulbous, with a membranous ring.

the odour is unpleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are adnate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in the woods, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 9 cm (between 4 and 13 cm)
  height of stem approximately 10 cm (between 6 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 12 mm (between 6 and 20 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : stem base becoming pinkish-brown to orange-red when touched (hardly visible); white stem with belt; the ring is more of a reddish ring zone

Lepiota ignivolvata is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lepiota ignivolvata in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lepiota ignivolvata in the forest of Rambouillet



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