Gymnopilus liquiritiae

Taxobox
name = Gymnopilus liquiritiae

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Gymnopilus liquiritiae
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Agaricales
familia = Cortinariaceae
genus = Gymnopilus
species = "G. liquiritiae"
binomial = "Gymnopilus liquiritiae"
binomial_authority = () mycomorphbox
name = Gymnopilus liquiritiae
whichGills = adnexed
whichGills2 = adnate
capShape = convex
hymeniumType=gills
stipeCharacter=bare
ecologicalType=saprotrophic
sporePrintColor=orange
howEdible=psychoactive

"Gymnopilus liquiritiae" is a widely distributed mushroom which grows in dense clusters on dead conifer wood. It has a rusty orange spore print and a bitter taste and may contain the hallucinogen psilocybin. [1]

Description

*Cap: 2-8 cm broad; convex, becoming nearly plane to subumbonate, dry, smooth, rusty brown to orange, margin even, at length striatulate, 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 mm(10) 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 mycelium at the base of the stalk. No partial veil.
*Taste: Bitter
*Odor: Mild or sometimes like 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 is a widely distributed wood rotting mushroom, subcespitose on conifer, seems to prefer dead hardwood in the southern regions. One of its key features is the lack of partial veil.

External links

[http://www.mushroomexpert.com/gymnopilus_liquiritiae.html Mushroom Expert - Gymnopilus liquiritiae] [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Taxa/Gymnoliqui148.html Gymnopilus liquiritiae info]