Lyophyllum smoky gray (Lyophyllum fumosum) photo and description

Lyophyllum smoky gray (Lyophyllum fumosum)

• Row smoky;
• Gray talker;
• The talker is smoky gray;
• Smoky clitocybe

Until recently, there was a separate species, Lyophyllum fumosum (L. smoky gray), associated with forests, especially conifers, some sources even described it as mycorrhizal with pine or spruce, outwardly very similar to L.decastes and L.shimeji. Recent molecular-level studies have shown that no such single species exists, and all finds classified as L.fumosum are either L.decastes specimens (more common) or L.shimeji (Lyophyllum shimeji) (less common, in pine forests).

Thus, as of today (2018), the species L.fumosum has been abolished, and is considered a synonym for L.decastes, significantly expanding the latter’s habitats, almost to “anywhere”. Well, L.shimeji, as it turned out, grows not only in Japan and the Far East, but is widely distributed throughout the boreal zone from Scandinavia to Japan, and, in some places, is found in pine forests of the temperate climate zone.

It differs from L. decastes only in larger fruiting bodies with thicker legs, growth in small aggregates or separately, attachment to dry pine forests, and, well, at the molecular level.

Thus, you should pay attention to two similar types:

Lyophyllum crowded – Lyophyllum decastes

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Lyophyllum simedzi — Lyophyllum shimeji