Merging money (Gymnopus confluens)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Omphalotaceae (Omphalotaceae)
- Genus: Gymnopus (Gimnopus)
- Type: Gymnopus confluens (Money confluent)
It occurs abundantly and often in deciduous forests. Its fruit bodies are small, grow in groups, the legs grow together in bunches.
Cap: 2-4 (6) cm in diameter, at first hemispherical, convex, then broadly conical, later convex-prostrate, with a blunt tubercle, sometimes pitted, smooth, with a thin curved wavy edge, ocher-brown, reddish-brown, with a light edge , fading to fawn, cream.
Records: very frequent, narrow, with a finely serrated edge, adherent, then free or notched, whitish, yellowish.
Spore powder is white.
Leg: 4-8 (10) cm long and 0,2-0,5 cm in diameter, cylindrical, often flattened, longitudinally folded, dense, hollow inside, first whitish, yellowish-brown, darker towards the base, then red- brown, reddish-brown, later sometimes black-brown, dull, with a “white coating” of small whitish villi along the entire length, white-pubescent at the base.
Pulp: thin, watery, dense, stiff in the stem, pale yellow, without much odor.
Edibility
The use is not known; foreign mycologists often consider it inedible due to the dense, indigestible pulp.