because they have amyloid spores . never mind that other genera ( amanita , for example) manage to hold species with both amyloid and inamyloid spores. and never mind that the sole character separating thegenus floccularia thus involves the color reaction of its spores, as seen by the human eye through...
--so by the time you read this the picture may have changed substantially. for the time being, however, psathyrella is still a fairly large genusof saprobic gilled mushrooms with dark spore prints (ranging from brown to black or dark purplish gray), "snap-able" stems, and frequently hygrophanous caps...
. thegenus volvopluteus was recently separated from volvariella by justo and collaborators ( a, b) when it turned out that volvariella gloiocephala and like species with sticky-when-fresh caps and large spores were actually more closely related to species of pluteus than to other, dry-capped, smaller-spored...
of features: a white spore print ; gills that are attached to the stem; a cap and stem that are densely covered (at least when young) with powdery granules that are easily rubbed off; a partial veil that becomes a sturdy or ephemeral ring on the stem; a pileipellis with inflated, chained-together terminal...
what mycologists call "pink" is not always what might come to your mind or mine; "brownish pink" or even "pinkish brown" might be more accurate). there is no volva at the base ofthe stem, which separates them from volvarielloid mushrooms . the spores, under a microscope, are smooth and round or ellipsoid...
you'll find gills where you expected pores. the similarity to boletes continues under the microscope; the spores in this genus look rather like the spores of boletes. some phylloporus species even bruise blue, like some boletes. as you might imagine, the fact that phylloporus species look like boletes...
down the stem, and stems that are often--though not always--bright yellow near the base. the flesh in the cap and stem is white, and observation of this feature is sometimes the best way to separate species of gomphidius from species of chroogomphus , which can appear similar but feature orangish to...
are held in tubes--rather like the tubes ofthe boletes , except that with some exceptions the tube layer of a polypore cannot be easily removed as a layer, the way it can with a bolete. aside from the fact that many of them are attractive and interesting mushrooms, polypores are of special interest...
growth on wood, usually in clusters; peppery or acrid taste ; and amyloid spores that are finely spiny or warted--though the spores in some species can be so finely ornamented that they appear smooth unless you have a very good microscope. many species of lentinellus lack stems, but some have rudimentary...
. deconica argentina, like its better-known cousin deconica coprophila, is "coprophilous," meaning it pops up in piles of dung—usually the dung of horses or cows. mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. if you know these mushrooms, you really know your $#!...