Clustered toughshank

Description:

The cap is 3 to 5 cm across and convex becoming bell shaped, sometimes flattening with an umbo. The flesh is pink, becoming wrinkled and almost white when dry. The gills are adnexe, narrow, crowded and cream or pale buff. The stem is 4 to 8 cm long and 3 to 5 mm in diameter. It is laterally compressed, velvety, pinkish buff, paler towards apex, white and downy at the base. There is no stem ring.

Habitat:

The clustered toughshank occurs in most temperate countries of Europe and in Asia. This species is also found in many parts of North America. It can be found in all kinds of deciduous woodland and occasionally in conifer plantations, on the forest floor, often where dead wood is buried.

Notes:

Spotted in Nieuwe Rande Forest in rural area of Deventer, Holland.(sources:see reference)