27/07/23, 3:16 PM
Tohisoo manor park, Kohila, Raplamaa
In grass lawn patch, partially open space
🔆 Open space, sunny fair weather with some clouds, with nearby storms
Original Instagram postAgrocybe pediades
Common Fieldcap
- Scientific identification
- Agrocybe pediades (Fr.) Fayod
- Family
- Strophariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Agrocybe
Names across languages
- English: Common Fieldcap
- German: Raustieliger Ackerling
- Estonian: Poolkerajas põldseen
- Russian: Полёвка стоповидная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2023-07-27.
Hymenium
Gills close to moderately spaced; creamy-beige to pale yellow-brown when young, becoming grey-brown to rust-brown with maturity; edges often paler
Cap
Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat; smooth, sometimes slightly greasy or sticky when fresh; honey-yellow, ochre-yellow to pale brownish-yellow, fading when dry; young margin may retain ephemeral white veil fragments
Hymenium Attachment
Adnexed to narrowly adnate, sometimes with a slight decurrent tooth
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, whitish to pale ochre-yellow or cap-coloured; finely pruinose to fibrillose, solid when young and becoming hollow; ring absent, with white basal mycelium or fine rhizomorphs
Spore print
Spore print dark brown to dull cinnamon-brown
Description
Saprobic in lawns, meadows, pastures, grassy parkland, roadside verges and dune grasslands; occasionally on compost, manure or woodchips; alone or gregariously; spring to autumn
Edibility
Not recommended; insubstantial, easily confused
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~2–8 cm long and ~0.2–0.6 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~0.5–3.5 cm
Flesh
Whitish, thin, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH red to pink on cap surface
Odour
Faint to mealy
Taste
Mealy
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, thick-walled, ~9.5–15(–18) × 7–10 µm, with a conspicuous germ pore; basidia 4-spored with basal clamps; cheilocystidia lageniform to ventricose, often capitate; pleurocystidia sparse or absent
Overview
Small honey-yellow grassland fieldcap with no persistent ring
Published in: Fayod. In: Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 7 9: 358. (1889).
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