Mealy Frosted Funnel - Clitocybe ditopus
Cap initially convex then flattened with depressed centre; greyish-brown or -buff in colour, drying lighter, and with a greyish coating. Gills slightly decurrent, pale grey. Smell strongly farinaceous. Spore-print white, spores very small, spherical.
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This is a difficult species to identify, and we recommend that a specimen is examined 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 smell, habitat and substrate.
Woodlands, usually on needle litter in conifer woods
Autumn.
Widespread in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
09 October 2019
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David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
09 October 2019
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Species profile
- Common names
- Mealy Frosted Funnel
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 09/10/2019 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 09/10/2019 (Nicholls, David)
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