Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Split Fibrecap

Facts
Common Name: 
Split Fibrecap
Scientific Name: 
Inocybe rimosa
Cap Diameter (mm): 
20-60mm
Stem Height (mm): 
30-80mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
3-10mm
Information
Description: 

A smallish yellowish-brown fungus growing either solitary or in trooping groups on soil in broadleaf woodland.

Distribution: 

Frequent from late Summer till Autumn.

Habitat: 

On soil, often calcareous in broadleaf woodland.

Cap: 

Conical or campanulate with a distinct sharp umbo, straw coloured with darker brown, silky radiating fibres, splitting radially.

Flesh: 

Cap and stem flesh are white and unchanging, Odour, faintly of meal, slightly bitter or no taste.

Gills: 

Adnexed or adnate, close, clay coloured the olivaceous-brown with a paler margin with age.

Stem: 

More or less equal, ring absent, whitish with ochraceous-brown tinge.

Additional Notes: 

Poisonous