Lyophyllum ambustum

Fungi, Dikarya, Basidiomycota, Agaricomycotina, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricales, Tricholomatineae, Lyophyllaceae, Lyophyllum

Current name: Lyophyllum ambustum (Fr.) Singer, Ann. Mycol. 41 (1/3): 105 (1943) [MB#282735]

Basionym:
Agaricus umbratilis ß ambustus Fr., Systema Mycologicum 1: 157 (1821) [MB#461501]
Obligate synonyms:
- Collybia ambusta (Fr.) Quélet (1872) [MB#491206]
- Collybia ambusta (Fr.) Quél., Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard Ser. 2, 5: 238 (1872) [MB#171214]
- Tephrocybe ambusta (Fr.) Donk, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 5: 284 (1962) [MB#339941]
- Agaricus ambustus (Fr.) Fr., Systema Mycologicum 1: 507 (1821) [MB#495293]
- Tephrophana ambusta (Fr.) Kühner, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon 7: 210 (1938) [MB#250639]

Macroscopically very variable species, occurring in and out of woods, sometimes even in Sphagnumbogs, an dung or decaying fungi. Gins often blackening. Microscopically easily to identify by wartyechinulate spores and not incrusting pigmentation. Taste and smell farinaceous, but sometimes lacking.