Hypholoma     Genus



Cortinarius husseyiKey to Gilled Mushrooms     Key
This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.


TricholomaAgaricales     Order
Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)


Strophariaceae     Family


Hypholoma     Genus     (Fries) Kummer




Hypholoma capnoides

Diagnosis

Comments

The big question of confusion with this genus is with Psathyrella. Psathyrellas don't grow in dense clusters, although there may be a substantial troop of them on any given substrate; also, most of them are more fragile than Hypholomas, and Hypholomas never have veil fragments on their caps or hanging from the cap margin. Psathyrellas are also much greyer and colorless in general
Also, hey, there are only four Hypholomas recognized here, and that's pretty much all you're going to find anywhere. If it does'nt fit one of these descriptions, it's almost certainly a Psathyrella

Narrow down your identification:


Hypholoma capnoidesHypholoma capnoides
Cap a warm, biscuity brown to yellow brown
Gills smoky
Taste mild
Growing on conifer wood

Hypholoma fasciculareHypholoma fasciculare
Cap bright yellow, sometimes browner in the center (rarely as brown as these)
Gills greenish yellow
Taste bitter

Hypholoma radicosum
Cap various shades of dark brown (looks like an old, dingy version of Hypholoma capnoides)
Stem with a rooting base
Gills dark smoky
Taste bitter

Hypholoma sublateritium
Cap rosy red in center
Gills smoky
Taste mild
Growing on deciduous wood


 

 


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