Mycena acicula
Orange-red Mycena ( Mycena acicula )
The inedible Red Orange Mycena ( Mycena acicula ) is a species of fungus in the family of Mycena relatives ( Mycenaceae ). It is a small, yellow-orange colored helmet Ling. Its fruiting from May to October plant residues.
- 6.1 Notes and references
Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The hat is 0.3-1.2 cm wide, hemispherical young and later to arched bell-shaped. The surface is matt to silky shiny and completely or partially fine whitish frosting. It is bright orange to orange-red and light yellow colored towards the edge. This is translucent striate almost to the middle and wavy.
The slats are narrow tacked on a stick, from white to yellowish color, their edges are smooth. The spore powder is white.
The narrow, cylindrical and hollow stem is 2-6 cm long and 0.5-1 mm wide. The surface is matt, smooth to finely frosted and pale to lemon yellow and becomes the stalk base towards lighter to whitish. The base is coated with a white Myzelfilz. The thin flesh is without odor and taste.
Microscopic characteristics
The inamyloiden, apple core-shaped spores are 9-12 microns long and 3-4.5 microns wide. The hyphae of the stem bark are densely covered with excrescences and embedded in a gelatinous substance.
Artabgrenzung
Very similar is the Coral Mycena ( Mycena adonis ), but has a coral red hat and a white stalk.
Ecology
The fruiting bodies appear individually to gregarious May to October the fallen twigs, pieces of bark or other plant debris. You can find the helmet Ling inside and outside of forests in humid locations.
Dissemination
The Orange-red helmet Ling is Holarctic distribution and is found in North America (USA, Canada, especially on the coast ), Asia ( North Asia, Caucasus, Central Asia, Kamchatka, Japan) and Europe. Also in North Africa (Morocco ), he was detected. In Western Europe it is common in the UK and Ireland, as well as in the Netherlands. He is also widespread throughout central Europe and, at least in large parts of southern and southeastern Europe. It occurs throughout Fennoscandia and North Eastern Europe ( Estonia). In Norway, its range extends northward to 66, in Finland to the 69th degree of latitude. He also was detected in Greenland.
In Germany the species is distributed over all the provinces of time, alternating from the Danish border to the Alps loosening and compaction areas again and again. In the Alpine countries, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria, the helmet Ling is common to quite often.
Importance
Already because of its smallness and Dünnfleischigkeit the helmet Ling is not suitable as an edible mushroom.
Swell
- Paul Kirk: Mycena acicula. In: Species Fungorum. Accessed on 9 December 2013.
- Mycena acicula. In: MycoBank.org. International Mycological Association, accessed on 9 December 2013 ( English).