Collared Fibrecap - Inocybe cincinnata
Cap 1 to 2.5 cm across, bell-shaped then expanding with a broad umbo, reddish-brown, densely covered in minute erect scales. Young specimens have a veil. Stem tinged violaceous at apex, thinly covered in brownish cottony tufts towards the base.
other Inocybe
Difficult to identify with certainty from photos; we recommend they are verified by an expert from a specimen prior to submission to NatureSpot. Also photograph from top down, in side-view and from underneath showing gills; note smell, habitat and substrate
Associated with trees, sometimes in damp deciduous and coniferous woods.
Season summer to autumn.
Infrequently recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland
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Species profile
- Common names
- Collared Fibrecap
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Inocybaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 31/10/2019 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 23/11/2020 (Calow, Graham)
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