Tien Shan Albatrellus (Albatrellus tianschanicus)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Type: Albatrellus tianschanicus (Tian Shan Albatrellus)
  • Scootiger Tien Shan
  • Scutiger tianschanicus
  • Albatrellus of Henan

Albatrellus tianshanskyi (Albatrellus tianschanicus) photo and description

Tien Shan Albatrellus – Mushrooms are annual, usually solitary.

head mushroom in youth fleshy and elastic. The hat is depressed in the center. Its diameter is 2 – 10 cm, and the thickness is up to 0,5 cm, but it becomes much thinner towards the edge. With a lack of moisture, it becomes brittle and brittle. The surface layer of the cap is wrinkled.

The cap and stem have a monomitic hyphal system. Hyphae tissues are very loose. They have thin walls. The diameter is constantly changing. Saturated with simple partitions, the diameter is 3-8 microns. At maturity, the partitions begin to dissolve and an almost homogeneous mass is obtained.

It is covered with dark scales, having a radial-concentric shape. The color of the hat is dirty yellow.

The tissue of this mushroom is white. Sometimes with a yellow tint. Remarkably, when dried, the color almost does not change. With age, it becomes brittle, loose, and a black line is clearly visible on the border with the hymenophore.

The tubules are slightly descending and inconspicuous, as they are very short in length (0,5-2 mm).

The surface color of the hymenophore varies between brown and brown-ocher.

pores almost correctly shaped: angular or rhombic shape. Notched along the edges. The placement density is 2-3 per 1 mm. The foot is more central. Its length is 2-4 cm, and its diameter is 0.-0,7 cm. At the base, the leg swells a little. Almost no color. When fresh, it has a smooth surface. And when dried, it becomes covered with wrinkles and becomes a pale terracotta color.

Sometimes you can find brown inclusions of a substance similar in consistency to resin, located in the area of ​​hyphae up to 6 microns in diameter, although sometimes shorter formations.

the hyphae are colored uniformly bluish, although the inclusions remain yellowish.

They are non-amyloid.

The hyphae of the legs do not differ from the hyphae of the mushroom cap. They have a denser plexus and a parallel arrangement. The hyphae of the stem are agglutinated and also impregnated with a resinous substance.

The basidia are club-shaped, and the spores are elliptical, spherical, smooth, hyaline. They have thickened walls and are drawn obliquely near the base.

Albatrellus tianshanskyi (Albatrellus tianschanicus) photo and description

Tien Shan albatrellus – edible when young, old specimens are hard.

Tien Shan Albatrellus occurs on the soil surface of a spruce forest. Hiding among the grass.

Geographical location – Kyrgyzstan, Tien Shan (height 2200m)

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