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Clitocybe tarda

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Clitocybe tarda
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Clitocybaceae
Genus: Clitocybe
Species:
C. tarda
Binomial name
Clitocybe tarda
Peck

Clitocybe tarda is a species of mushroom. It has a brownish pink cap with a smooth surface, the flesh is thin and brittle, and the cap tastes bitter. The stalk is slender and smooth. The spore print is pinkish gray. It is unknown if the species is edible, but it does not have a pleasant taste.[1]

The caps are 2–8 cm wide, and brownish closer to the center.[2] The pale gills usually become more decurrent with age.[2] The stalks are 2–6 long and 3–8 mm wide, sometimes with clusters of pale tomentum.[3] Clusters of this species can be found in areas that are used for agriculture or filled with grass.[2]

The 1896 Report of the New York State Botanist wrote that the mushroom should be called Clitopilus tardus.[4]

It resembles Clitocybe nuda and C. brunneocephala.[3]

References

Clitocybe tarda
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnate or decurrent
Stipe is bare
Spore print is pink
Edibility is unknown
  1. ^ H. McKnight, Kent (1987). A Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 145. ISBN 0-395-42101-2.
  2. ^ a b c Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: Timber Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
  3. ^ a b Davis, R. Michael; Sommer, Robert; Menge, John A. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 152–153. ISBN 978-0-520-95360-4. OCLC 797915861.
  4. ^ Report of the New York State Botanist (1896). Report of the New York State Botanist. Harvard University. p. 167. Retrieved February 13, 2012.