Gymnopilus liquiritiae (Persoon) P. Karsten
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Found scattered or in groups on rotting fallen hardwoods.

Description

Cap: Orange to rusty brown, convex to flat (in age), margin finely lined in age, flesh pale yellow/orange. Gills: Yellowish becoming orange in age; attached; close. Stalk: Whitish to pale orange; mycelium yellow or rusty. (J. Solem, pers. comm.)

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Gymnopilus liquiritiae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Genus: Gymnopilus
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G. liquiritiae
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Gymnopilus liquiritiae
Gymnopilus liquiritiae
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnexed or adnate
Stipe is bare
Spore print is yellow-orange
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is inedible

Gymnopilus liquiritiae is a mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. The mushroom is widely distributed and grows in dense clusters on dead conifer wood. It has a rusty orange spore print, a bitter taste, and does not contain the hallucinogen psilocybin.[1] One of its key distinguishing features is the lack of partial veil.

Description

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  • Cap: 2–8 cm in diameter; initially convex, becoming nearly plane to nearly umbonate in age, dry, smooth, rusty brown to orange color, margin even, at length striatulate (with marked by small lines, grooves or ridges), cracking slightly in age, flesh pale yellow to pale orange.
  • Gills: Close to crowded; broad, edges fimbriate, yellowish or pale orange, eventually orange; sometimes with reddish brown spots.
  • Spore print: Rusty orange.
  • Stipe: 3–7 cm long; 3—8 mm thick; more or less equal, or tapering in either direction; sometimes slightly, even to off-center; smooth or finely fibrous; whitish to pale orange; yellowish or rusty colored mycelium at the base of the stalk. No partial veil.
  • Taste: Bitter
  • Odor: Mild or sometimes like raw potatoes
  • Microscopic features: Spores 7—8.5 x 4—5.5 μm, elliptical; pleurocystidia (inconspicuous), cheilocystidia, pileocystidia and caulocystidia present.[2]

Habitat and formation

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Gymnopilus liquiritiae is a widely distributed wood rotting mushroom, subcaespitose on conifer, seems to prefer dead hardwood in the southern regions.

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References

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  1. ^ Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.
  2. ^ "A Trial Key to GYMNOPILUS in the Pacific Northwest". Archived from the original on 2008-09-26. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
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