The Families of Mushrooms and Toadstools Represented in the British Isles
The Families of Mushrooms and Toadstools Represented in the British Isles |
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Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing basidia and basidiospores; angiocarpic; a globose or tuberiform gasterocarp (an epigeal gasterocarp, with homogeneous gleba, dehiscing via irregular lobes from the apex); with no particular odour other than an ordinary fungoid one. The gasterocarp without a columella. Capilliteum present. Gleba at first pale. The peridium dehiscent. The basidia ‘unmodified’. The basidiospores statismosporic; white, or rusty brown, or brown, or fuscous (? - not hyaline); ornamented (reticulate, large).
The hyphal walls lamellate, with a thin, electron-dense outer layer and a relatively thick, electron-transparent inner layer. Spaerocysts not occurring among the context hyphae.
Ecology. Saprophytic, or mycorrhizal (?). The fruit-bodies not subterranean; borne on the ground.
British representation. 1 species in Britain (M. corium); Mycenastrum.
World representation. 1 species; genera 1. Widespread.
Classification. Basidiomycota; Basidiomycetes; Agaricomycetidae; Agaricales.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in the British Isles. Version: 14th February 2008. http://delta-intkey.com’.