Inocybe haemacta (Berk. & Cke) Saccardo. Bleicher Risspilz. Cap 2–5cm across, bell-shaped with an umbo, pale greenish buff ground and broken up into coarse fibrous scales reddening when damaged. Stem 40–70 x 4–8mm, light soon flushed red-brown, slightly swollen at the base, pruinose throughout. Flesh reddening. Taste mild, smell weak or strong of horse manure. Gills adnate, pale clay. Cystidia elongate-fusoid with apical encrustation, pale yellowish. Spore print snuff-brown. Spores smooth, almond-shaped, 89–12 x 4.5–6um. Habitat broad-leaf woods. Season autumn. uncommon. Not edible -most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. Distribution, Europe. Distinguished by the red coloring. |