Clitocybe brumalis

{{Taxobox
| name = Clitocybe brumalis
| regnum = Fungi
| divisio = Basidiomycota
| classis = Agaricomycetes
| subclassis = Hymenomycetes
| ordo = Agaricales
| familia = Tricholomataceae
| genus = Clitocybe| species = C. brumalis| binomial = Clitocybe brumalis| binomial_authority = (Fr.) Quél. 1872  
}}Clitocybe brumalis, commonly known as the winter funnel cap, brumalis signifying "wintry", is an inedible mushroom of the genus Clitocybe. It grows in deciduous and coniferous woodland, only in winter; sometimes even under snow.

Description
The cap is convex or umbilicate when young, soon funnel-shaped. Pale when moist, with a weakly translucent and striped margin, almost white when dry, it grows up to 5 cm in diameter. The gills are dirty white, crowded and a little decurrent. The spores are also white. The stem is pale brown, striped and soon hollow, with a white, felty base. The flesh is dirty brown.

Similar species
Several species growing in autumn look very similar and are difficult to distinguish without a microscope.

References
E. Garnweidner. Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe''. Collins. 1994.

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brumalis
Category:Fungi described in 1872
Category:Fungi of Europe
Category:Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries