Gomphidius
Big Schmierling ( Gomphidius glutinosus )
The lubricating Linge ( Gomphidius ) is a fungal genus in the family Schmierling relatives. The most famous is the Great Schmierling or the Cow's Mouth ( Gomphidius glutinosus ), the type species of the genus.
- 7.1 Literature
- 7.2 Notes and references
Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The lubricating compacts are characterized by a very greasy hat skin, which is also her eponymous feature. The hat is often hunched, pitched at the age upwards. The hat color can be made of mixtures of purple, brown, gray, ocher, copper or red. The fruiting body is medium to large and fleshy. The more or less removed lamella stain aged dark to black, they run significantly down on the stem. They sometimes have a waxy consistency and are lighter than the hat dyed with ocher, gray or orange. The spore powder is blackish or dark olive brown. The stem is usually otherwise colored yellow white at the bottom. In the upper part often a slimy ring zone remains from the velum. The meat is in the hat and stick a white or pale color, the stem base is conspicuously colored chrome yellow.
Microscopic characteristics
The lamellae is structured bilaterally. The fruit layer instructs the cutting blades on large cystidia. The elongated spindle-shaped, smooth-walled spores have no germ pore.
Species delimitation
Lubricating articles can easily be confused with yellow feet ( Chroogomphus ). Chroogomphus species differ in drier hats, a fibrous- dry velum, copper reddish flesh and amyloid Myzelhyphen at the stem base.
Ecology and phenology
Lubricating compacts are mycorrhizal fungi, thus form communities with higher plants. Preferred partners are different conifers such as pine, larch and spruce.
The fruiting bodies appear in summer and autumn.
Species
Worldwide, the lubricating compacts comprise 10 species, 6 of which occur in Europe.
Spot Ender larch Schmierling Gomphidius maculatus
Rose Red Schmierling Gomphidius roseus
System
The lubricating compacts are closely related to the yellow feet ( Chroogomphus ) and were formerly included in the same genus. Some authors use for the genus instead of " lubricating compacts " the common name " yellow feet." Despite the lamellar Hymenophors the lubricating compacts are among the Dickröhrlingsartigen.
Importance
Most lubricating compacts are edible, there are no poisonous species within the genus.