Torn Fibrecap

Inocybe lacera

Forests, parks, sandy shrublands, willow thickets. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-4 cm across, bell-shaped-convex when young, later raised-flattened, with a blunt umbo, shaggy, fibrous-scaly on a brown background. Gills pale brown, later umber-brown, reddish-brown, adnexed. Stem 3-5x0.2-0.5 cm, of even thickness, brown. Flesh thin, yellowish, brownish, with an unpleasant smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies umber-brown, cap roughly scaly. Grows in small groups, mostly in coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests, in damp grassy places. Poisonous, very common. An untempting, unattractive fungus.