Leucocybe candicans (Pers.) Vizzini, P. Alvarado, G. Moreno & Consiglio 2015

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Clitocybe candicans is saprobic on dead, rotting litter of Trees

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Clitocybe candicans is saprobic on dead, rotting litter of Broadleaved trees

Pholiota candicans (Schaeff.) Schroet. Krypt.-
Fl. Schles. 31 : 608. 1889.
Agaricus candicans Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 50. 1774. Agaricus praecox Pers. Comm. Fung. Bavar. 89. 1800. Pholiota praecox Qu61, Champ. Jura Vosg. 91. 1872.
Pileus 2-14 cm. broad, convex to campanulate or nearly plane, sometimes umbonate, often fuscous or fuscous-black when very young, soon whitish, often tinged with yellow or tan, or brownish at the center, usually ochraceous or tan in herbarium specimens, soft, glabrous, or at times as though finely tomentose, dry, areolate in dry weather or in large specimens; context white, with a strongly farinaceous odor; lamellae sinuate-adnate to broadly adnate, or with a very slight decurrent tooth, medium-close, whitish, becoming brown or rusty-brown, honeyyellow to clay-colored or snuff-brown in herbarium specimens, 3-12 mm. broad; veil membranous, forming a white, superior, persistent or evanescent annulus, or partially adhering to the margin of the pileus; stipe central, equal or somewhat bulbous below, whitish, pruinose-mealy to slightly fibrillose, squamose, fmrfuraceous, or becoming nearly glabrous, often striate above the annulus, stuffed or hollow, 3-15 cm. long, 3-20 mm. thick; spores ovoid, usually with a truncate apex, smooth, deep-brown, 8.5-10 X 4.5-6 m; cystidia present, flask-shaped or ventricose, sometimes rare, projecting somewhat, 14-18 ju in diameter.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: On grassy ground, in lawns, fields, etc.; sometimes on the ground in open woods or in straw or other litter carried into woods.
Distribution: Massachusetts to North Carolina, and westward to the Pacific coast; also in Europe.