Spinellus bristly (Spinellus fusiger)
- Department: Mucoromycota (Mucoromycetes)
- Order: Mucorales (Mucoraceae)
- Family: Phycomycetaceae ()
- Genus: Spinellus (Spinellus)
- Type: Spinellus fusiger (Spinellus bristly)
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- Spinellus bristle
- Mucor rhombosporus
- Mucor fusiger
- Spinellus rhombosporus
- Spinellus rhombosporus
- Spinellus rhombisporus
- Mucor macrocarpus
- Ascophora chalybea
- Ascophora chalybeus
Spinellus fusiger is a species of zygomycete fungi belonging to the genus Spinellus of the Phycomycetaceae family.
Zygomycetes (lat. Zygomycota) were previously separated into a special division of fungi, which includes the class Zygomycetes and Trichomycetes, where there were about 85 genera and 600 species. In 2007, a group of 48 researchers from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, China and other countries proposed a system of fungi, from which the Zygomycota division was excluded. The above subdivisions are regarded as having no definite systematic position in the Fungi kingdom.
We have all seen the needle bed – a small pillow for needles and pins. Now imagine that instead of a pillow we have a mushroom cap, from which a lot of the thinnest silvery pins with dark balls at the ends stick out. Represented? This is what Spinellus bristly looks like.
In fact, this is a mold that parasitizes some types of basidiomycetes. The entire genus Spinellus has 5 species, distinguishable only at the microscopic level.
fruit bodies: white, silvery, translucent or transparent hairs with a spherical tip, 0,01-0,1 mm, the color varies, they can be from white, greenish to brown, black-brown. They are attached to the carrier by filamentous translucent sporangiophores (sporangiophores) up to 2-6 centimeters long.
Inedible
Spinellus bristly parasitizes other fungi, so it can be found throughout the mushroom season. Most often it parasitizes on mycenae, and of all mycenae prefers Mycena blood-legged.
Photo: from questions in recognition.