Clitocybula family (Clitocybula familia)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Marasmiaceae (Negniuchnikovye)
  • Genus: Clitocybula (Clitocybula)
  • Type: Clitocybula familia (Clitocybula family)

:

  • Agaricus family
  • Gymnopus familia
  • Baeospora family

Clitocybula family (Clitocybula familia) photo and description

Ecology: Arboreal saprotrophs. They grow in groups on woody debris.

Clitocybula family (Clitocybula familia) photo and description

head: convex shape, milky-beige color, darker towards the middle. Diameter 1-1,5 cm.

Records: adherent to the leg. The hyphae of the plates are parallel.

Clitocybula family (Clitocybula familia) photo and description

Leg: thin, rather fragile.

Pulp: thin, brittle, without much taste and smell.

spore powder whitish color. Pleurocystidia are absent.

I came across in late August – early September in the Primorsky Territory, in a mixed forest, on old stumps. There is no smell, the color does not change.

Clitocybula family (Clitocybula familia) photo and description

Opinions about edibility are controversial. In some countries they eat, somewhere they don’t, someone “is not of interest”. Apparently, you can eat, but it’s better to find something tastier.

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