Conocybe tenera (Schaeff.) Fayod
Family: Bolbitiaceae
Brown Dunce Cap
Conocybe tenera image
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Mata, M., D. Penjor and S. Pradham. 2010. Fungi of Bhutan. National Mushroom Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Thimphu, Bhutan.

Local name: No local name known.

Edibility: Inedible, likely to be poisonous.

Habitat: Terrestrial on parks, gardens, fields, solitary to scattered.

Description: Cap: 1-3 cm diameter, conic to campanulate, surface smooth and slightly sulcate at the margin, brown to cinnamon-brown fading with age to brown-yellowish. Hymenophore: Gills are annexed to free, close, cinnamon-brown to rusty-brown. Stem: 5-8 cm tall, equal, surface smooth to fibrillose, con-coloured to cap. Flesh: Thin and brown. Spore Print: Rusty-brown.

Comments:It is relatively small, fragile, brown coloured, usually appears solitary to scattered in disturbed soils, parks, gardens, along trails, etc. It is preferable not to try to consume it because a related species, Conocybe filaris, contains toxins similar to Amanita phalloides.

Conocybe tenera image
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Conocybe tenera image
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