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Gymnopilus liquiritiae

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Cortinariaceae

Scientific name
  
Gymnopilus liquiritiae

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Agaricales

Genus
  
Gymnopilus

Rank
  
Species

Gymnopilus liquiritiae Shroomery Gymnopilus liquiritiae

Similar
  
Gymnopilus viridans, Gymnopilus sapineus, Gymnopilus validipes, Gymnopilus braendlei, Gymnopilus luteoviridis

Gymnopilus liquiritiae is a mushroom in the Cortinariaceae family. The mushroom is widely distributed and grows in dense clusters on dead conifer wood. It has a rusty orange spore print, a bitter taste, and does not contain the hallucinogen psilocybin. One of its key distinguishing features is the lack of partial veil.

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Description

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  • Cap: 2 – 8 cm in diameter; initially convex, becoming nearly plane to nearly umbonate in age, dry, smooth, rusty brown to orange color, margin even, at length striatulate (with marked by small lines, grooves or ridges), cracking slightly in age, flesh pale yellow to pale orange.
  • Gills: Close to crowded; broad, edges fimbriate, yellowish or pale orange, eventually orange; sometimes with reddish brown spots.
  • Spore Print: Rusty brown.
  • Stipe: (1)3 – 7 cm long; (2)3 — 8(10) mm thick; more or less equal, or tapering in either direction; sometimes slightly, even to off-center; smooth or finely fibrous; whitish to pale orange; yellowish or rusty colored mycelium at the base of the stalk. No partial veil.
  • Taste: Bitter
  • Odor: Mild or sometimes like raw potatoes
  • Microscopic features: Spores 7 — 8.5(10) x 4 — 5.5 µm, elliptical; pleurocystidia (inconspicuous), cheilocystidia, pileocystidia and caulocystidia present.

    • Habitat and formation

    Gymnopilus liquiritiae Shroomery Gymnopilus liquiritiae

    Gymnopilus liquiritiae is a widely distributed wood rotting mushroom, subcaespitose on conifer, seems to prefer dead hardwood in the southern regions.

    References

    Gymnopilus liquiritiae Wikipedia
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