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Tubaria furfuracea — Fringed Tubaria — Inocybaceae


Small mushroom. Convex cap, maturing to planar or somewhat depressed, smooth or fibrillose surface, hygrophanous. Cap color brown to reddish-brown, fading and sometimes whitish. Margin striate when moist. straw-yellow to yellowish-brown, with the margin splitting.   Gills buff, aging to cinnamon-brown, attached to subdecurrent.  Stalk as tall as cap diameter, equal or sometimes wider at base, color similar to cap, with fibrils, and sometimes dotted with white flecks. Veil fibrillose, leaving patches and flecks on cap. silky, whitish to pale yellow. Mycorrhizal.
 
Habitat: Scattered to gregarious, terrestrial or on debris, in disturbed sites and moist forests.

Scent: Fungal

Spores: Brown

Season: Autumn



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Convex cap flattening with age
Miller Peninsula State Park

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Reddish-brown cap fades to golden or whitish
Miller Peninsula State Park

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Fresh caps reddish-brown
Miller Peninsula State Park

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Veil remnants
Miller Peninsula State Park

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