Phaeocollybia

Taxobox
name = "Phaeocollybia"


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image_caption = "Phaeocollybia jennyae"
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota
subdivisio = Agaricomycotina
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Agaricales
familia = Cortinariaceae
genus = "Phaeocollybia"

Phaeocollybia is a genus of mushrooms, with caps and brown spores. They are known for a long stipe which continues downinto the ground, known as a "rooting" stipe. It is still uncertain,but people believe these are root pathogens on trees, and are usually found near the roots of trees.

Taxonomic details

The genus Phaeocollybia is defined as mushrooms, with a glutinous, conic, umbonate cap, a rooting stipe, no veil or cortina, and spores which are brown in deposit. The spores are ornamented but will lack a germ pore or
plage.