Clitocybe brumalis

Clitocybe brumalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Subclass:	Hymenomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Tricholomataceae
Genus:	Clitocybe
Species:	C. brumalis
Binomial name
Clitocybe brumalis (Fr.) Quél. 1872

Clitocybe brumalis commonly known as the Winter Funnel Cap is an inedible mushroom of the genus Clitocybe. It grows in deciduous and coniferous woodland, only in winter; sometimes even under snow.

Description

The cap is convex or umbilicate when young, soon funnel shaped. Pale when moist, with a weakly translucent and striped margin, almost white when dry and grows up to 5 cm in diameter. The gills are dirty white, crowded and a little decurrent. The spores are also white. The stem is pale brown, striped and soon hollow, with a white, felty base. The flesh is dirty brown.

Similar species

Several species growing in autumn look very similar and are difficult to distinguish.

References

• E. Garnweidner. Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe. Collins. 1994.

External links

• Clitocybe brumalis in Index Fungorum.
• Clitocybe brumalis in MycoBank.