Lyophyllum decastes

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Lyophyllum decastes

19 September 2010 Witley Common, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Common Name

Clustered domecap

Cap

Convex, expanding with age, smooth, reddish brown to brown, to about 12 cm across

Gills

Broadly adnate, narrow, crowded, whitish to pale grey

Stem

Cylindrical to club shaped, longitudinally fibrous, white at the apex, white to greyish brown below

Flesh

Firm

Smell

Indistinct

Taste

Indistinct

Season

Summer to autumn

Distribution

Common

Habitat

On soil in deciduous woods

Spore Print

White

Microscopic Features

Spores globose, smooth (5-6.5) µm.

Edibility

Edible