| Velvet roll-rim | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Basidiomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Tapinellaceae |
| Genus: | Tapinella |
| Species: | T. atrotomentosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Tapinella atrotomentosa (Batsch) Šutara |
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| Synonyms | |
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Agaricus atrotomentosus Batsch |
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| Tapinella atrotomentosa | |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
| gills on hymenium | |
| cap is depressed | |
| hymenium is decurrent | |
| stipe is bare | |
| spore print is buff | |
| ecology is saprotrophic | |
| edibility: inedible | |
Tapinella atrotomentosa, commonly known as the velvet roll-rim or velvet-footed pax, is a species of fungus in the Tapinellaceae family of the Agaricales, or gilled mushrooms. It was originally described as Paxillus atrotomentosus by German naturalist August Batsch, and given its current name by Šutara in 1992.[1] It is an inedible saprobic fungus found growing on tree stumps of conifers in Europe and North America.
The fruit body is squat mushroom with a cap 6–20 cm (2.4–7.9 in) across, brown in colour with a rolled rim. The forked gills are cream-yellow and forked, while the thick stipe is dark brown and juts out sidewards from the mushroom.[2]