Clitocybe cistophila

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Clitocybe cistophila is a species of agaric fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, formally described in 1985 based on collections from Sardinia, Italy. The fungus produces small fruiting bodies with milk-white to cream caps that become funnel-shaped with age, and emit a distinctive anise odour when fresh. It grows exclusively in maquis shrubland habitats on sandy, acidic soils beneath rockrose shrubs, particularly in association with holm oak, maritime pine, myrtle, and bay laurel. Initially known only from southern Sardinia, the species has since been found in Tuscany and Calabria, suggesting a wider western Mediterranean distribution.

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