Fissured fiber (Inocybe rimosa)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Inocybaceae (Fibrous)
  • Genus: Inocybe (Fiber)
  • Type: Inocybe rimosa (Fissured fibre)
  • Inocybe fastigiata

Fissured fiber (Inocybe rimosa) photo and description

External Description

Cap 3-7 cm in diameter, pointed-conical at an early age, later practically open, but with a rather sharp hump, splitting, clearly radially fibrous, ocher to dark brown. Brownish or olive-yellow plates. A smooth whitish-ocher or white stem, clavate-widened at the bottom, has a thickness of 4-10 mm and a length of 4-8 cm. Elliptical, smooth spores of a dirty yellow color, 11-18 x 5-7,5 microns.

Edibility

Fibrous fibrous deadly poisonous! Contains the poison muscarine.

Habitat

Often found in coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests, in apiaries, along paths, in forest glades, in parks.

Season

Summer autumn.

Similar species

The inedible fiber is fine-haired, distinguished by dark scales on the cap, white edges of the plates and a red-brown top.

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