Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ AgaricalesOrder
• └─ InocybaceaeFamily
• └─ InocybeGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

not recorded

Broadleaf and coniferous forest floor, often on calcareous or sandy soils

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

not recorded

Poisonous — do not eat

• ▸ Silky-fibrillose cap in pale beige, later reddish-brown, becoming radially cracked
• ▸ Conical to bell-shaped at first, later with a fleshy knob
• ▸ Cream to pale brown, adnate gills
• ▸ Slender fibrous stem without a ring

Contains the toxin muscarine. Many members of the genus Inocybe look alike and are easily confused, so members of this genus should never be collected for the pot.