Agaricus impudicus

Agaricus impudicus
File:Agaricus impudicus 01.jpg
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Agaricaceae
Genus:	Agaricus
Species:	A. impudicus
Binomial name
Agaricus impudicus (Rea) Pilát (1951)
Synonyms
Psalliota impudica Rea (1932)

Agaricus impudicus View the Mycomorphbox template that generates the following list Mycological characteristics
File:Gills icon.png	Gills on hymenium
File:Convex cap icon.svg	Cap is convex
File:Free gills icon2.svg	Hymenium is free
File:Ring stipe icon.svg	Stipe has a ring
File:Transparent spore print icon.svg	Spore print is brown
File:Saprotrophic fungus.svg	Ecology is saprotrophic
File:Mycomorphbox Caution.png	Edibility is not recommended

Agaricus impudicus, also known as the tufted wood mushroom, is a mushroom of Agaricus, a genus with many edible species.

Description

As with all Agaricus species, gills are free, colour progresses with age from pale-pink to a chocolate color, and spores are dark brown. The stipe has a clear annulus (ring). Cap 4–15 cm wide, and appears brownish due to numerous brownish scales on a white background. The stipe is white, 6–12 cm tall and 0.8–2 cm thick, cylindrical and wider towards the bottom, or ending in a bulb. It is distinguished from similar forest-growing Agaricus mushrooms in that it does not bruise yellowish or reddish when cut, except for the attachment of stalk and cap which may turn slightly pink, and the widening stipe. Taste is mild and earthy, and the mushroom is sometimes regarded as edible; however, other authors treat it as inedible in practice if not in theory because it has a nauseating smell resembling rotten radish, which persists during cooking.

Habitat

Known to occur in Western and Southern Europe and New Zealand, this uncommon mushroom is found in deciduous or coniferous forest in autumn.

Taxonomy

This species is known under a number of synonyms, all these refer to the same species:

• Agaricus brunnoleus (J. Lange) Pilát
• Agaricus koelerionensis (Bon) Bon 1980
• Agaricus reae Bon 1981
• Agaricus variegans F.H. Møller 1952
• Agaricus variegatus (F.H. Møller) Pilát 1951
• Psalliota impudica Rea 1932
• Psalliota variegata F.H. Møller 1950
• Psalliota variegata var. koelerionis Bon 1972

See also

• List of Agaricus species

External links

• "Danske storsvampe. Basidiesvampe" [a key to Danish basidiomycetes] J.H. Petersen and J. Vesterholt eds. Gyldendal. Viborg, Denmark, 1990. ISBN 87-01-09932-9
• Agaricus impudicus entry at Global Biodiversity Information Facility.