I have loved mushrooms since childhood, and I have also been a programmer for a long time. Combining these two hobbies, I wrote this website. Previously, I had two other mushroom identification sites, which I sold. Only one of them remains accessible today. My goal with the current site is to create an easy-to-use search and identification platform that works great both in the field and at home. I hope it brings joy to others.
Bartha László
Species flashcards
Practice area: created for the 303-species Hungarian mushroom inspector requirement. It is not an official examination; requirements in other countries may differ.
Wide-gilled Collybia
Clitocybula platyphylla
not edible
- Habitat: deciduous stump
- Fruiting season: May – October
- Cap: flat umbonate fibrous cracked
- Stem: cylindrical rooting
- Fertile layer: adnate free sparse serrated convex
Description
Cap: 5-15 cm in diameter; convex when young, then flattening, its center more or less umbonate, its margin often cracking in dry weather; whitish, grayish-brownish, light olive-brownish; surface innately, radially fibrous.
Gills: Adnate or almost free, wide, convex, sparsely standing; whitish, their edges serrated, often darker.
Stem: 5-10 (15) cm long, 1-1.5 cm thick; cylindrical, carefully pulled out of the soil, at its base there is a root-like, repeatedly branching, often very long, white mycelial cord; whitish or slightly grayish; surface longitudinally fibrous.
Flesh: Thin in the cap, soft, fibrous in the stem, brittle; white; smell not characteristic, taste astringent.
Spore: White; 6-10 x 5-8 µm; spherical, smooth, with oil droplets.
Occurrence: From May to October, in deciduous forests, on rotting stumps, branches or on the ground, common species.
Edibility: Not edible due to its taste.
Confusion: Similar to the poisonous greenish-gray entoloma, the edible brown shield and the grey tricholoma.
Note: The genus name Megacollybia comes from the words Mega - large, and -Collybia - coins or coin-shaped, indicating that these are larger than the coin-shaped mushrooms in the Collybia genus. Incidentally, some of the most common species, which were in the Collybia genus for many years, have recently been transferred to the Gymnopus and Rhodocollybia groups. See for example, Gymnopus peronatus or Rhodocollybia butyracea species. platyphylla comes from the words platy - or wide and phylla - leaves (in this case gills), meaning wide-gilled.
Species description: In 1796, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon described it and created its scientific name as Agaricus platyphyllus. In 1972, the Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdeněk Pouzar placed this species in the Megacollybia genus, which is the currently accepted scientific name.
Taxonomy
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyMarasmiaceae
- GenusClitocybula
- Species: platyphylla
- Described by: (Pers.) Malençon & Bertault
- Hungarian name: széleslemezű fülőke
- Lifestyle: wood saprotroph
- Edibility: not edible
