Cystoderma amianthinum

earthy powder-cap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-12.

Gills, moderately crowded, whitish becoming pale yellowish

Convex to broadly convex, often flattening with age, covered with a granular surface, light yellow to yellowish-brown, margin scalloped

Free to adnate

Cylindrical, with a distinct, powdery to fibrous surface, pale yellow to brownish, adorned with a small, fragile ring near the top

Spore print white

Saprobic, growing in grasslands, heathlands, and woodland edges, in moss under conifers, late summer to autumn

Edible but not recommended due to confusion with toxic species

Fruit body small to medium-sized, stipe 3-7 cm long, 3-8 mm thick

Cap 2–6 cm in diameter

KOH on cap surface rusty red

Odour usually pungent and unpleasant

Taste mild

Spores elliptical, smooth, 4-7 x 3-4 µm, weakly amyloid, basidia 4-spored, cystidia absent

Small to medium-sized mushroom with a granular, yellowish-brown cap and a distinctive powdery stipe

1889). Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., Sér. 7 9: 351.

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Pine-spruce-birch wooded heath, in moss

59°23'12.5"N 25°23'33.9"E

🔆 Occasional sun, partly cloudy, open spot