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| location: North America |
| edibility: Poisonous/Suspect |
| fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink, Brown |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Conical or nearly so |
| stem type: Simple stem |
| spore colour: Light to dark brown |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Inocybe rimosoides Pk. Cap 2-4cm across, broadly conical, then flat with a prominent umbo; golden or reddish ochre; fibrillose with long parallel fibers that tend to cause the cap to crack from the edge (rimose). Gills adnexed; pallid buff at first, then darker. Stem 25-55 x 3-7mm, base equal or swollen to sub-bulbous; whitish or with touches of ochre; pruinose at the apex. Flesh whitish. Odor faint, a touch spermatic. Spores ovoid to bean-shaped, smooth, 8-10 x 5-6µ. Deposit snuff brown. Pleurocystidia absent. Habitat in mixed woods. Uncommon. Found in eastern North America from North Carolina to Nova Scotia and west to Michigan. Season August. Not edible, most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. |
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