page_title: Infundibulicybe geotropa
section_title: Taxonomy and naming
hierarchical_section_title: Infundibulicybe geotropa / Taxonomy and naming
caption_attribution_description: English: 2 young Clitocybe geotropa
context_page_description: Infundibulicybe geotropa, also known as the trooping funnel or monk's head, is a funnel-shaped toadstool widely found in Europe and in North America. A large sturdy cream- or buff-coloured funnel-shaped mushroom, it grows in mixed woodlands, often in troops or fairy rings, one of which is over half a mile wide. Although edible, it could be confused with some poisonous species of similar colouration and size.
context_section_description: French mycologist Pierre Bulliard initially described the trooping funnel as Agaricus geotropus in 1792, before Lucien Quélet renamed it Clitocybe geotropa (a name by which it was long known) in 1872. Its specific epithet derived from the Ancient Greek words γῆ/gē "earth", and τρόπος/tropos "turn".
  Finnish mycologist Harri Harmaja proposed I. geotropa and twelve other Clitocybe species be split off into a new genus Infundibulicybe, thus the new binomial name is Infundibulicybe geotropa.
caption: Young specimens with distinctly bossed small caps
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