Spotted collibia

• Agaricus maculatus Alb. & Schwein. 1805 basionym
• Agaricus maculatus var. scorzonereus Fr. 1838
• Agaricus mollis Batsch 1783, nom. illeg.
• Collybia maculata (Alb. & Schwein.) P. Kumm. 1871
• Collybia maculata var. immutabilis AH Sm. 1944
• Collybia maculata var. longispora (Antonin & Noordel.) Bon 1998
• Collybia maculata var. occidentalis AH Sm. 1944
• Collybia maculata var. scorzonerea (Fr.) Gillet 1876

• The hat is 3.5-10 cm in diameter, in young mushrooms is convex in shape, then opens to wide-convex and almost flat, sometimes with a slight elevation in the center, smooth, mucous or dry, first pinkish-cream, then white, in old mushrooms covered with brown streaks and spots.
• The pulp is white in color, with a slight unpleasant odor and a bitter taste.
• Lamellar hymenophore , plates adhered to the peduncle, often located, white, cream or yellow, in old mushrooms with rusty-brown spots.
• Leg 5-12 cm long and 1-1.3 cm thick, more or less even, hollow, longitudinally lined, white, less yellow, covered with rusty brown spots with age.
• The spore powder is pink-cream or yellowish. Spores 5.5-7 × 5-6 microns, spherical or almost spherical in shape, smooth, unpainted, often dextrinoid .
• It is considered an inedible mushroom due to its strong bitter taste.

It occurs singly or in small groups, sometimes forming “ witch rings ” on decaying litter and wood in coniferous and mixed forests.

• Tricholoma inamoenum (Fr.) Gillet 1874 does not stain with age.

• AE Bessette, WC Roody, AR Bessette, DL Dunaway. Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States . - Syracuse University Press, 2007 .-- S. 189. - 373 p. - ISBN 081563112X .