Tawny Funnel

Lepista inversa

Coniferous and mixed forests, on needles, among grasses, in damp places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, rarely larger. Cap 3—8 cm, rarely 10 cm across, shaped like an irregularly depressed funnel (Clitocybe), reddish-brown, orange-brown, fading to yellow, yellowish. Gills whitish, yellowish, narrow, crowded, decurrent. Stem 2-5x1- 1.5 cm, usually eccentric, the colour of the cap, strongly attached to the substrate, so it is cut rather than pulled up. Flesh brownish, with an unpleasant woody smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies resembling orange-brown funnels, caps depressed, grows in groups. Edible, of low value. Common.