Fools Funnel - Clitocybe rivulosa
A smallish funnel, often in fairy rings. Iniitially convex cap, soon flattening or slightly depressed; cap covered in a smooth white coating that cracks in patches and concentric rings to reveal the darker buff cap colour underneath. Spore-print is white.
Other funnels. C phyllophila has a darker pinkish-cream spore-print
spore-print 
This can be a difficult species to identify and we recommend that it is identified from a specimen by an expert before submission to NatureSpot. Also photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note habitat and substrate.
Grasslands, roadsides, etc.
Late summer and autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Kibby (2020) says that the synonymy with C dealbata is disputed by some authors. First Nature (P. O'Reilly) treats them as one species: https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/clitocybe-rivulosa.php
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
09 October 2019
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David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
09 October 2019
det. T Hering
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Species profile
- Common names
- Cracking Clitocybe, Fool's Funnel
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 12/11/2011 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 09/10/2019 (Nicholls, David)
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