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Inocybe subcarpta.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Inocybe subcarpta Mushroom
Ref No: 8668
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location: North America
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Yellow, Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Inocybe subcarpta Kühner & Boursier. Cap 3-7cm across, broadly conic, showing an umbo as it flattens out; snuff brown, lighter at the margin; surface strongly fibrillose to scaly. Gills adnate; whitish at first, brown in age. Stem 70-100 x 8-12mm, equal without a bulb but sometimes a little swollen, becoming hollow; pale at first, becoming darker from the base up, until it is colored as the cap; fibrous. Flesh off-white to golden-colored. Odor slight. Spores nodulose, 7-9.5 x 5-6.5µ. Deposit snuff brown. Cystidia colorless, fusiform or cylindric, not encrusted, 60-80 x 10-18µ. Habitat in conifer woods. Rare or overlooked. Found in the Pacific Northwest. Season September-November. Not edible, most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. Comment My spores are a little shorter than those of the collection by Smith.

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