English:
Saffron parasol;
Saffron powder-cap; Earthy powder-cap; Grain umbrella mushroom.
German: Amiant-Körnchenschirmling.
Synonym: Agaricus amianthinus.
Name: Cystoderma means blistered skin.
Region: widespread, Europe and North America, northern temperate zones.
Habitat: damp mossy grassland, woodland, amongst grass or bracken; acidic soils; coniferous forest clearings, on wooded heaths, sometimes with willow.
Use: nonpoisonous, but the lookalike Lepiota castanea is deadly toxic.
MycologyType: small orange-ochre, or yellowish-brown, gilled mushroom; flesh is thin and yellowish; odor is unpleasant, resembles husked corn.
Cap: saffron-yellow or orange-ochre; 2 to 5 cm in diameter; convex to bell-shaped, later flat; with a slight depression around a low umbo, central boss; dry, powdery; with a shaggy or fringed margin.
Stem: cylindrical; with a flaky-granular sheath beneath a fleeting, powdery ring.
Hymenium: gills white initially, creamy later; adnexed, narrowly attached to the stem; initially quite crowded.
Spore print: white.