Species flashcards

Description

Cap: 2-4 cm in diameter; initially convex, then flattening, its margin becoming wavy; ochre-brownish when wet, its center darker, reddish-brownish, lighter when dry; surface often wrinkled, uneven.

Gills: Small tooth-adnate to the stem, not densely standing, often with intermediate gills at the cap margin; whitish, cream-colored, becoming rust-spotted over time.

Stem: 7-8 cm long, 3-5 cm thick; cylindrical, often compressed surface, smooth, clustered, rooting; reddish-brown.

Flesh: Thin in the cap, fibrous in the stem; whitish; smell not characteristic, mild taste.

Spore: White; 6.5 -7.5 x 5.8 μm; elliptical, smooth.

Occurrence: From June to October; in deciduous forests, on stumps or ground, common species.

Edibility: Not edible.

Confusion: Can be confused with the bad-smelling, velvety-stemmed, not edible hairy-stemmed collybia and the lighter-stemmed, denser-gilled, edible oak-loving gymnopus.

Note: collybia means - small coin; marasmius means weakened, referring to its small fragile shape.

Species description: In 1894, Britzelm. first recorded it and gave it the name Agaricus marasmoides. Collybia marasmioides (Britz.) Brsky.& Stangl

Taxonomy

1. PhylumBasidiomycota
2. ClassAgaricomycetes
3. OrderAgaricales
4. FamilyOmphalotaceae
5. GenusGymnopus

• Species: erythropus
• Described by: (Pers.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel. (1997)
• Hungarian name: vöröstönkű fülőke
• Lifestyle: soil saprotroph
• Edibility: not edible