for you some ofthe crucial morphological features for thegenus: the shape ofthe cap, the color ofthe young gills (before they turn pink), the odor and taste , and the color ofthe stem when fresh. micromorphological features, which almost always have to be assessed in this god-forsaken genus, can...
and slender stature, their white spore prints and their tough, rooting stems, which taper underground. there is no partial veil or universal veil (among the north american species, anyway), so the relatively thin stem lacks a ring or a volva . most ofthe north american species occur under hardwoods...
that typify the toothed mushrooms . one good way to see the difference is to compare two classic and common wood rotters: the polypore trametes versicolor and the crust fungus stereum ostrea (sometimes called the "turkey tail" and the "false turkey tail," respectively). from above these mushrooms look...
of them, and probably hundreds of undocumented, "cryptic" species. in fact inocybe is often treated less as a genusof mycorrhizal mushrooms than as a mycological rite of passage; if you have not "put a name on" a few inocybes at some point in your life, good luck getting your (myco-) country club membership...
collaborators, ; jacobsson, , , ; klan and collaborators, ), painting a rather different portrait of species in thegenus. contemporary dna studies have yet to address thegenus with much sustained focus, to my knowledge (see below). i see this state of affairs as exciting, rather than frustrating,...
> (arcangeliella) lactarius . . . ] by michael kuo arcangeliella desjardinii looks like a malformed lactarius --which is more or less exactly what it is. thegenus arcangeliella contains "gasteroid," lactarius-like mushrooms that have poorly formed gills; they have lost the ability to forcibly discharge...
appearance, the presence ofthe spines helps separate them from the thousands of other mushrooms that lack spines. some of these mushrooms, like auriscalpium vulgare or hydnum repandum , are easy to identify—but others can make for a frustrating experience. i find many species of hydnellum to be very...
; some ofthe species hang their spines from branched structures, while one species simply forms a large clump of spines. recent molecular biology studies have placed hericium within the russulales (it was previously variously disposed in the "aphyllophorales"), in the family hericiaceae (see mushroom...
rings on lawns, in meadows, and in other grassy places. many other mushrooms create fairy rings , however, and if the e-mails i often receive are any indication, the use ofthe common name "fairy ring mushroom" for marasmius oreades leads to substantial confusion, causing chlorophyllum molybdites ,...