Kuehneromyces

Mean Stockschwämmchen ( Kuehneromyces mutabilis )

The Stockschwämmchen ( Kuehneromyces ) is a fungal genus in the family Träuschlingsverwandten ( Strophariaceae ).

Features

The Stockschwämmchen are small to medium sized leaves mushrooms with brownish- yellowish, spitzgebuckelten, dünnfleischigen hats, the hat skin is bare, shiny and greasy hygrophanous ( damp stained becoming ). The light brownish fins are slightly decurrent or grown wide, they are never free. The handle is set centrally, it can be scaly or smooth and can have a membranous, persistent ring have ( Mean Stockschwämmchen ) or be without a ring ( with rare ring residues) ( Glattstieliges Stockschwämmchen ). The spore powder is brown, the spores are ellipsoidal and have a truncated germ pore. In the light microscope, the spores appear smooth, and its fine warts are visible only with an electron microscope. The fruiting bodies grow in tufts and sociable.

Ecology

The Stockschwämmchen are saprobiontische wood dwellers that grow on hardwood and softwood.

Species

In Europe, two species of the genus occur.

  • Glattstieliges Stockschwämmchen ( Kuehneromyces lignicola )
  • Mean Stockschwämmchen ( Kuehneromyces mutabilis )

Also the Japanese nameko ( nameko today counted as Pholiota to Schüpplingen ) was placed for a time in this genus.

Systematics and name

The genus is very closely related to the genus Pholiota ( Pholiota ) and is attributed by some authors this. The scientific name honors the French mycologist Robert Kuhner.

Importance

The Common Stockschwämmchen is a popular edible mushroom can be grown on wood. The Glattstielige Stockschwämmchen is inedible.

Likelihood of confusion with the deadly poisonous Gifthäubling ( Galerina marginata ).

Swell

  • Achim Bollmann, Andreas Gminder, Peter Reil: List of Figures major European fungi. 4th edition, with generic CD. Black Forest mushroom Teaching Show, Hornberg 2007, ISSN 0932 - 920X.
  • GJ Krieglsteiner, A. Gminder: The Great Mushrooms of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 4, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3281-8.
  • H. Genaust: Etymological Dictionary of the botanical name of the plant. 3rd edition, Nikol Verlagsgesellschaft mbh & Co. KG, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7.
  • Egon Horak: boletes and agarics in Europe. 6th edition, Elsevier, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8274-1478-6.
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