Conocybe filaris

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Conocybe filaris
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Conocybe filaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Homobasidiomycetes
Subclass: Hymenomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Bolbitiaceae
Genus: Conocybe
Species: C. filaris
Binomial name
Conocybe filaris
(Fries) Kühner
Synonyms

Pholiota filaris
Pholiotina filaris
Agaricus togularis var. filaris
Pholiota togularis var. filaris

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Conocybe filaris
mycological characteristics:
 
gills on hymenium
 

cap is conical or flat

hymenium is adnexed

stipe has a ring

spore print is brown or reddish-brown

ecology is saprophytic

 

edibility: deadly

Conocybe filaris is a common lawn mushroom which is widely distributed and especially common in the pacific northwest. It contains the same mycotoxins as the death cap. It is also known as Pholiotina filaris.

Description

Conocybe filaris has a cap which is conical, expanding to flat, usually with an umbo. It is less than 3 cm across, has a smooth brown top, and the margin is often striate. The gills are rusty brown, close, and adnexed. The stalk is 2 mm thick and 1 to 6 cm long, smooth, and brown, with a prominent and movable ring. The spore print is rusty brown.

Habitat

Common and widely distributed on lawns and wood chips.

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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .

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