| Lepiota cf. clypeolaria |
| This single specimen was found in August under oak. The light cinnamon-brown cap breaks up into small patches as it expands. Stipe is silky and smooth above the ring zone and heavily woolly below. Spore print creamy white. |
| "Lepiota clypeolaria (Bulliard ex Fries) Kummer CAP 1.8–6 cm wide; conical becoming convex and then flattened; disc unbroken, fibrous, dark chestnut brown to cinnamon brown, raised in age; margin like the disc but soon breaking into loose deciduous woolly scales, buff or light brown to bright yellowish, incurved becoming upturned and torn or eroded in age; exposed flesh white or pallid yellow. GILLS free, buff to cream color; close; edges finely fringed; in one to three tiers. SPORE PRINT pale cream. STALK 3.5–14.5 cm long, top 4–10 mm thick; equal or somewhat expanded below; hollow; pale silky fibrous above the ring, shaggy below with woolly scales the color and texture of those on the cap margin. RING whitish to bright yellowish; woolly; sometimes flaring like a skirt; often breaking up into woolly scales. ODOR not remarkable. TASTE not remarkable. HABIT usually gregarious but may be solitary. HABITAT forest floors. EDIBILITY "poisonous" in some American field guides and "edible" in some European field guides; a look-alike may be lethal." Richard E. Sieger, Puget Sound Mycological Society copyright © January 17, 2007 Trial Key to Pacific Northwest Lepiota and Allies |
| Spore morphology |