Mycena galopus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mycena galopus
Mycena galopus var candida (White milking bonnet)
Mycena galopus var candida (White milking bonnet)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Mycena
Species: M. galopus
Binomial name
Mycena galopus
(Pers.) P. Kumm.
M. galopus nigra
M. galopus nigra

Mycena galopus is a species of small mushroom having a bell-shaped, radially-grooved cap. The subspecies galopus is a pale grey-brown, while the subspecies candida (common name White milking bonnet) is as the name suggests white. Both occur during summer and autumn on leaf litter in mixed woods and hedegrows. The species is inedible.


Template:Mycomorphbox
How to create a mycomorphbox
Mycena galopus
mycological characteristics:
 
gills on hymenium
 

cap is conical

 

hymenium is adnate

 

stipe is bare

 

spore print is white

 

ecology is saprotrophic

 

edibility: unknown

[edit] References

Jordan, Michael, The Encyclopaedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe, Frances Lincoln, London 2004.

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Mycena galopus photo


This Basidiomycota-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.