Une goutte de Lugol sur la sporée pourrait, en effet, faire pencher la balance vers la dernière proposition.
Cap convex, tomentose; flesh slowly reddening; sp 6-8 x 3-4 μm, narrowly ellipsoid or sometimes slightly phaseoliform (fig. 409G). Cap 40-100 mm, often finely cracked with age, pale to dark greyish brown; gills adnate to emarginate, medium spaced, brownish grey; stem 40-70 x 12-20 mm, cylindrical with a tapering base, fibrillose, pale brownish grey; smell farinceous. Sp amyloid; cheilocystidia absent or cylindrical to ± tortuous. In dry grassland and natural pastures, in FI also in forests; summer to autumn; rare in temp.-bore.; DK (CR), FI (EN, U, PK), FO, NO (VU), SE (EN). – FAD 166G, FE 3:65, Mar 830, M&J 1, Svp 35:52,
P. metapodium (Fr.) Singer