Species details
Common funnel
Infundibulicybe gibba
Conditional / expert preparation
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Description
A slender ochre-brown funnel mushroom with a small central boss in the depressed cap and white gills running far down the stem.
Identification features
The cap is smooth and quickly becomes strongly funnel-shaped, often retaining a central boss. Gills are thin, white and crowded. The stem is paler than the cap, slightly broadened toward the base and white-felted.
Identification checklist
Check the funnel-shaped leather- to ochre-brown cap with a persistent blunt boss, white strongly decurrent gills and white-felted stem base. The spore print is white.
Detailed features
- Cap
- A slender ochre-brown funnel mushroom with a small central umbo in the depressed cap and white gills running far down the stem.
- Hymenophore
- Gills are thin, white and crowded.
- Stem
- The stem is paler than the cap, slightly broadened toward the base and white-felted.
- Flesh
- White and soft, sometimes cottony in the stem.
- Smell
- Pleasant, mild smell.
- Spore print
- White.
Size
- Cap diameter
- 4–7 cm
- Stem height
- 5–7 cm
- Stem diameter
- 0,5–1 cm
Habitat
On woodland soil, often near conifers, singly or in groups; summer and autumn.
Fruiting period
June, July, August, September, October
Ecology
- Trophic mode
- Saprotrophic
- Substrate
- Forest soil, Leaf litter
- Notes
- Saprotrophic species. On woodland soil, often near conifers, singly or in groups; summer and autumn.
How to separate similar species
Several funnel-shaped species look similar and some Clitocybe-like mushrooms are poisonous. Trooping funnel is larger and more robust; tawny funnel lacks the same central boss. Never infer edibility from funnel shape alone.
Similar species
- Trooping funnel (Infundibulicybe geotropa)
- Paralepista flaccida
- Clitocybe species
Interesting facts
Did you know? The cap becomes strongly funnel-shaped but often retains a small central umbo.