Hypholoma lateritium

brick cap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-09-09.

Gills, crowded, initially yellowish or pale gray but turning dark gray to purple-brown as the spores mature

convex when young, flattening with age, and often with a broad, umbonate, brick-red to orange-red, sometimes fading toward the margin

Adnate to adnexed

cylindrical, fibrous, yellowish to reddish-brown, lighter near the top and darker toward the base, with veil remnants of faint ring or fibrous zone

Spore print dark purple-brown.

Saprobic, grows in dense clusters on decaying hardwood logs, stumps, and buried wood, in deciduous forests, autumn, also in spring

Edible (nutty-flavour), potential confusion with toxic species

Fruit body medium-sized, stipe 5–10 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm thick

Cap 4–10 cm in diameter

Odour earthy, faintly mushroomy

Spores smooth, ellipsoid, 6–7 x 4–5 µm, with prominent germ pore, basidia 4-spored, cheilocystidia are flask-shaped or clavate

Medium-sized saprobic mushroom with brick red cap that grows in dense clusters on decaying deciduous hardwood

1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 72.

Väike-Rõsna, Võrumaa, Estonia

Birch-alder-aspen forest (birch-alder-aspen), on decayed decidious wood stump

57°59'18.0"N 27°37'41.6"E

🔆 Partial overcast, semi-shade with sunny spots