Agrocybe smithii
Appearance
Agrocybe smithii | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Strophariaceae |
Genus: | Agrocybe |
Species: | A. smithii
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Binomial name | |
Agrocybe smithii Watling & H.E.Bigelow
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Agrocybe smithii is a species of mushroom in the genus Agrocybe. This species is a pileate-stipitate fungi, and has a medium size of fruitbodies. The cap is convex to plane-convex; yellowish brown. The hymenium is gilled with adnexed gills, initially whitish, but later dark brown. Odour mealy and taste bitter. The stipe is central, cylindrical and lacks a partial veil; usually has mycelial cords in the stipe base. Its spores are short, broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth with a germ pore. Its pellis has large, rather inflated cheilocystidia which are more or less flask-shaped.[1] Often found growing on wood chips.
References
[edit]- ^ Watling R, Bigelow HE. (1983). "Observations on the Bolbitiaceae – 22". Mycotaxon. 17: 377–97.