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Myxomphalia cinder (Myxomphalia maura)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomovye or Ryadovkovye)
- Genus: Myxomphalia
- Type: Myxomphalia maura (Mixomphalia cinder)
- Omphalina cinder
- Omphalina maura
- Fayodiya charcoal
- Fayodia maura
- Omphalia maura
Myxomfalia cinder (Myxomphalia maura) is a fungus of the Tricholomov family.
External Description
The described fungus has a rather conspicuous appearance, is painted in a dark color, grows in conflagrations, since it belongs to the number of carbophilic plants. This species got its name precisely for the place of growth. The diameter of its cap is 2-5 cm, already in young mushrooms it has a depression on its surface. The caps of myxomfalia cinder are thin-fleshy, have an edge lowered down. Their color varies from olive brown to dark brown. In drying mushrooms, the surface of the caps becomes shiny, silver-gray.
The hymenophore of the fungus is represented by white plates, often arranged and descending to the stem. The mushroom leg is characterized by internal emptiness, cartilage, gray-black color, length from 2 to 4 cm, diameter from 1.5 to 2.5 mm. Mushroom pulp is characterized by a powdery smell. Spore powder is represented by the smallest particles with sizes of 5-6.5 * 3.5-4.5 microns, which have no color, but are characterized by an elliptical shape and a smooth surface.
Season and habitat
Myxomfalia cinder grows in open areas, mainly in coniferous forests. Found singly or in small groups. Often it can be seen in the middle of old fires. The period of active fruiting of the species falls on summer and autumn. Brown spores of the fungus are located on the inner surface of the cap.
Edibility
Cinder mixomfalia belongs to the number of inedible mushrooms.
Similar types and differences from them
Mixomfalia cinder have a slight resemblance to the inedible black-brown omphalina (Omphalina oniscus). True, in that species, the hymenophore plates are gray in color, the mushroom grows on peat bogs, and is characterized by a hat with a ribbed edge.