Byssonectria terrestrial (Byssonectria terrestris)

Systematics:
  • Department: Ascomycota (Ascomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Pezizomycotina (Pezizomycotins)
  • Class: Pezizomycetes (Pezizomycetes)
  • Subclass: Pezizomycetidae (Pezizomycetes)
  • Order: Pezizales (Pezizales)
  • Family: Pyronemataceae (Pyronemic)
  • Genus: Byssonectria (Bissonectria)
  • Type: Byssonectria terrestris (Bissonectria terrestrial)

:

  • Thelebolus terrestrial
  • Sphaerobolus terrestris

Author of the photo: Alexander Kozlovskikh

Fruiting body: 0.2-0.4 (0,6) cm in diameter, at first closed, spherical, spherical-flattened, with a short elongated stalk, back pear-shaped, translucent yellow, similar to a caviar, then with a whitish cobwebbed spot at the top, which is torn unevenly hole or slit-like, fruiting body depressed, cup-shaped, with remnants of a white spathe along a thin edge, later almost flat, with a dimple in the middle, yellow, yellow-orange, pinkish-orange, red-orange, with a whitish edge, white haired on the outside, pale yellow or one-color with a disk, to the base with a greenish tinge.

Spore powder whitish.

The pulp is thin, densely jelly, odorless.

Spread:

In spring and early summer, from early May to mid-June, in different forests, on paths, on the soil, on rotting plant remains and twig litter covered with white mycelium, according to the literature, it may be an “ammonia fungus” and synthesize nitrogen from ammonia urine, i.e. lives in places polluted by the urine of moose and other large animals, occurs in crowded groups, sometimes quite large, infrequently. As a rule, larger brownish limpets of Pseudombrophila crowded can be found next to the accumulations of Bissonectria.

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