Infundibulicybe gibba

Common Funnel

Scientific identification: Infundibulicybe gibba (Pers.) Harmaja
Family: Tricholomataceae
Class: Agaricomycetes
Genus: Infundibulicybe

Names across languages

English: Common Funnel
German: Ockerbrauner Trichterling
Finnish: Suppilomalikka
Estonian: Tavalehtrik
Russian: Инфудибулицибе ворончатая

The scientific profile

From the latest record: 2026-09-03.

Hymenium

Gills narrow, close to crowded; white to cream, becoming pale buff with age

Cap

Convex when young, later broadly depressed to deeply funnel-shaped, retaining a small central umbo; smooth; cream, pinkish-buff to pale ochre-brown; margin initially inrolled, later wavy

Hymenium Attachment

Strongly decurrent

Stipe

Cylindrical, tough and fibrous, cream to pale buff; slightly enlarged at base with conspicuous white cottony mycelium; becoming hollow with age; ring absent

Spore print

Spore print white

Ecology

Saprobic among leaf and needle litter and humus; scattered, gregarious; forests, woodland edges and heathland; summer to late autumn

Edibility

Edible, modest

Fruit body

Fruit body medium; stipe ~3–7 cm long and ~0.5–1 cm thick

Dimensions

Cap ∅ ~3–8(–10) cm

Flesh

Whitish, thin, soft, unchanging when cut

Chemical reactions

KOH sometimes briefly pale green on fresh cap surface

Odour

Faint, sweet to almond-like

Taste

Indistinct

Microscopy

Spores lacrymoid to ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~5–8 × 3–5 µm; basidia 4-spored; cystidia absent; pileipellis a cutis; clamp connections present