🇺🇸 bearded fieldcap - 🇩🇪 Rissiger Ackerling - 🇪🇪 Mõrand-põldseen - 🇷🇺 Агроцибе неприятная 7/12/26
🆔 Agrocybe molesta (Lasch) Singer
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills close to crowded, whitish at first, becoming dull greyish-brown to clay-brown as spores mature
ℹ️ Cap: Convex when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat; whitish, cream to dull yellowish, slightly tacky when fresh but soon dry; often cracking with age and retaining pale veil fragments around the margin
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate to adnexed
ℹ️ Stipe: Rigid, cylindrical, whitish, sometimes browning toward the base; with a thin, fragile and often short-lived whitish ring
🟤 Spore print: Brown
🌱🍂 Saprobic in lawns, meadows, fields, grassy roadside verges and gardens; solitary, scattered, gregarious or occasionally in fairy rings; late spring to summer
😕 Reported as edible after thorough cooking but bitter and of poor quality
📏 Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~5–10 cm long, ~0.3–1.5 cm thick
📐 Cap ∅ ~2.5–8 cm
🔪 Flesh white, firm, unchanging when cut
🧪 KOH negative to yellowish on the cap surface
👃 Indistinct to slightly mealy
👅 Indistinct, mealy to somewhat bitter
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, smooth, thick-walled, 11–16(–19) × 6–9(–10) µm, with a conspicuous germ pore; basidia clavate, 4-sterigmate; cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia broadly utriform to clavate
🔤 Pale grassland fieldcap with a frequently cracked cap and fringed veil remnants
🇺🇸 bearded fieldcap - 🇩🇪 Rissiger Ackerling - 🇪🇪 Mõrand-põldseen - 🇷🇺 Агроцибе неприятная