The talker is pale-colored ( Latin: Clitocybe metachroa ) - a type of mushroom included in the genus Talker ( Clitocybe ) of the Ordinary family ( Tricholomataceae ).
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Description
The hat is 3-5 cm in diameter, flat-convex, then depressed and funnel-shaped, often radially lined along the edge, hygrophanous, light beige or brownish in color.
The plates are usually quite frequent, descending to the stem, grayish.
Leg 3-6 cm long and 0.4-0.8 cm thick, pale brown, bare, cylindrical, with an extended pubescent base.
The flesh is whitish or grayish, thin, without any particular taste or smell.
Spore powder is white. Spores 5-7 Γ 3-4 microns, elliptic, slightly asymmetric, non-amyloid , 4 in each on basidia . Cystides are absent.
The pale-colored talker is considered an inedible fungus, some sources classify it as a poisonous species.
Ecology
Govorushka prefers broad-leaved forests, usually grows singly or in small groups.
Taxonomy
Synonyms
- Agaricus dicolor Pers. , 1801 basionym
- Agaricus metachrous Fr., 1818, nom. nov.
- Clitocybe decembris Singer , 1962
- Clitocybe dicolor (Pers.) Murrill , 1915
- Clitocybe pratensis Velen. , 1920
- Clitocybe pseudodicolor Raithelh. 1972
- Clitocybe raphaniolens P. Karst . , 1890
- Lepista metachroa (Fr.) Harmaja , 1976
- Pseudolyophyllum metachroum (Fr.) Raithelh., 1978
- Pseudolyophyllum pseudodicolor (Raithelh.) Raithelh., 1979
Literature
- Serzhanina G.I. Hat mushrooms of Belarus. Key to and summary of flora. - Mn. , 1984. - S. 70-71, 259.
- Jordan, Michael. The encyclopedia of fungi of Britain and Europe. - 2004. - P. 145. - ISBN 0711223785 .