Furrow-stemmed Cavalier

Melanoleuca grammopodia – Inedible

Forests, grassy thickets, shrublands. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies rather stout, large. Cap grows up to 15 (18) cm across, fleshy, greyish-brownish, yellowish-brownish, with a blunt umbo. Gills whitish, cream, adnate. Stem 5-12x1–2.5 cm, longitudinally furrowed. Flesh whitish, with an unpleasant smell and taste. Characteristic features: large fruiting bodies, an especially long stem, cap fleshy, spores amyloid. Grows several fruiting bodies together or in small groups, among grass, in forests and on roadsides. Inedible.