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Paralepistopsis amoenolens (paralysis funnel)

Synonyms: Clitocybe amoenolens; Paralepistosis amoenolens

Wikipedia Abstract

Clitocybe amoenolens, commonly known as the paralysis funnel, is an agaric fungus of the large genus Clitocybe. It was originally described from Morocco in 1975 by the French mycologist Malençon. It was discovered to be poisonous after several people had consumed specimens all found in the alpine Maurienne valley in the Savoie department over three years. They had mistaken it for the edible common funnel cap (C. gibba) or Lepista inversa. A similar species from Japan, C. acromelalga, known as the poison dwarf bamboo mushroom, had been discovered to be poisonous in 1918.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0