Conifer-cone Baeospora
Baeospora myosura (Fries) Singer
Conifer-cone Baeospora: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/15597
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Found single or in groups on conifer cones.

Description

Cap: Cinnamon/tan, convex, smooth; thin flesh. Gills: White, crowded. Stalk: White to brown with tiny hairs, hollow; long white hairs (mycelium) at base. (J. Solem, pers. comm.)

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Baeospora myosura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Cyphellaceae
Genus:
Baeospora
Species:
B. myosura
Binomial name
Baeospora myosura
(Fr.) Singer (1938)[1]
Baeospora myosura
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnexed
Stipe is bare
Spore print is white to cream
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is unknown

Baeospora myosura, commonly known as conifercone cap, is a species of fungus that produces agaricoid fruit bodies on decaying pine and spruce cones. The pileus is pale brown to cream, the lamellae are pale and very crowded, and the spore print is white or cream and amyloid. It is commonly found in North America and Europe. It is regarded as nonpoisonous but is of unknown edibility.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Singer R. (1938). "Notes sur quelques Basidiomycetes". Revue de Mycologie (in French). 3: 187–99.
  2. ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.