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Clitocybe vibecina
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomovye or Ryadovkovye)
- Genus: Clitocybe (Clitocybe or Govorushka)
- Type: Clitocybe vibecina
- East Govorushka
Hat: the diameter of the cap is 1,5-5 cm. The cap is round, slightly convex at first and prostrate concave later. Slightly funnel-shaped, with a dark umbilical depression in the middle. The cap is greyish-brown or greyish-white in color, which fades over time. The surface is smooth and dry, the constitution is watery. In dry weather, the cap can wrinkle and become creamy, in wet weather it becomes striped around the edges.
Records: frequent, narrow, of various lengths. Since the time of the record, they have somewhat descended on the leg. Grayish or whitish in color, and sometimes grayish brownish.
Leg: the leg is flat or curved, flattened or cylindrical. With age becomes hollow. In the lower part it is grayish, in the upper part – with a whitish powdery coating. At the base of the leg with white fluff. In dry weather, the leg becomes brown.
Pulp: the flesh is whitish, turning greyish in wet weather. Powdery, soft taste. Can be rancid and floury unpleasant. Smell is slightly musty.
Споры smooth, colorless in the form of an ellipse. The spores are not cyanophilic, that is, they practically do not stain with methylene blue. Inside the spores may be homogeneous or with uneven lipid droplets.
Spore powder: white.
Spread: The grooved talker is rare. Usually grows in groups in pine forests. Growing time November-January. Prefers dry coniferous sparse forests up to heather wastelands. Sometimes found in deciduous forests – beech, oak, birch. As a rule, it forms fruiting bodies on spruce and pine litter. Prefers poor acidic soils. It can also be found on the remains of coniferous bark and in moss.
Edibility: гриб Govoruška желобчатая — unsedible.
Similarity:
Slightly odorous talker (Clitocybe ditopa)
differs in a hat covered with a grayish or whitish bloom with a non-striped edge, smaller spores and a shorter stalk.
Pale-colored talker (Clitocybe metachroa)
It occurs mainly on leaf litter and does not have a floury odor.