- Cap expanded, flat to funnel-shaped, often with a weak umbo in the centre, brown, smooth, sticky when wet.
- Cap margin long remaining inrolled.
- Gills yellowish-white to pale yellow-brown, becoming brown-spotted when handled, attached to decurrent.
- Stem yellowish-white to yellow-brown, narrowing towards the stem base.
Paxilloid agarics
Brown Roll-rim agg.
Paxillus involutus s.lat.
NA
Not applicable
Poisonous
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows on the ground and in litter in coniferous forest, deciduous forest and parks throughout the Nordic region.
Notes
Can cause Paxillus syndrome after repeated consumption. All Paxillus species should be regarded as poisonous, even though not all included species are well studied.
Similar species
What we previously called Paxillus involutus is a complex of several closely related and similar species. P. obscurisporus is usually larger and has darker purplish-brown spore print. P. cuprinus has a different spore shape (microscopy required), and P. ammoniavirescens develops a green colour reaction on the cap in contact with ammonia.