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| synonyms: Nadelholzschüppling, Snakeskin Brownie |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Poisonous/Suspect |
| fungus colour: Grey to beige |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Conical or nearly so |
| spore colour: Light to dark brown |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Hypholoma marginatum (Pers. ex Fr.) Schroet. apud Cohn Nadelholzschüppling Snakeskin Brownie. Cap 1.5–4cm across, bell-shaped, dull tan with paler buff margin. Stem 30–70 x 2–5mm, brownish, covered in white silky fibres producing a silvery effect, becoming brownish on handling. Flesh whitish in cap becoming brownish towards the stem base. Taste very bitter, smell mushroomy. Gills pale yellowish when young soon olivaceous brown. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, hair-like or bottle-shaped. Pleurocystidia clavate with long beak-like apex. Spore print dark brown. Spores elliptic with a distinct pore, 7–9.5 x4–5um. Habitat under conifers. Season autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe. |
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