Xerula radicata (Rehlan: Fr.) Dörfelt.

Blaszki białe, dość rzadkie, zaokrąglone lub wykrojone ząbkiem.

Trzon u góry białawy, ku podstawie brązowiejący, jaśniejszy niż kapelusz, bardzo długi, wysmukły, 100-200 x 5-10 mm, czasem skręcony wokół własnej osi, nasada trzonu korzeniasta, głęboko pogrążona w ziemi; pełny, z wiekiem pusty.

Miąższ biały, niezmienny, kruchy; smak łagodny do gorzkiego, bez zapachu.

Pileus grey-yellowish, grey-brownish, pale brown; 30-100 mm in diameter; surface smooth, sometimes radially wrinkled, alveolate, glossy and viscid when moist, dry dull; young campanulate to conic, later convex, flattened, with an indistinct umbo; thin-fleshed, leathery.

Lamellae white, rather distant, rounded or adnexed.

Stipe at the apex whitish, towards the base becoming brown, lighter than the cap, very long, slender, 100-200 x 5-10 mm, sometimes twisted along its axis, base of the stipe rooting, deep in the ground; solid, with age hollow.

Flesh white, unchanging, fragile; taste mild to bitter, odourless.

pileipelis

spores

Spore print white. Spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, 12-15 x 9-11 µm.

Common. From summer till fall, even during dry weather, solitary, rare gregarious, on or near rotten stumps, on buried wood, in hardwood forests, commonly in beech forest.

Edible but nothing special.

Species variable in size, stipe could be quite short; characteristic is viscid, pitted cap and rotting stipe. Close Xerula pudens has dark brown stipe, cap with tomentose surface and bitter taste.