Lentinellus cochleatus
Anise Zähling ( Lentinellus cochleatus )
The anise - Zähling ( Lentinellus cochleatus ) is a mushroom of the family of ear spoon Stache Ling relatives ( Auriscalpiaceae ). The growing in tufts on rotten wood fruiting bodies are characterized by a funnel -shaped hats, tough meat and the smell of anise.
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Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The fruiting bodies are divided into a hat and centrally to laterally ansitz forming stem. The convex in young mushrooms, later funnel-shaped to cone- shaped hat is bent wide and wavy 25-55 (-70 ) mm. Sometimes several hats are fused together. The young curled and sharp in older fruiting bodies brim is often indented or incised on one side. The top is leather -yellow to brownish-red, the surface smooth to slightly wrinkled and dull.
The fins on the underside of the cap run down on the stem, are standing close and strongly notched at the edges. Long and short lamellae are arranged mixed. The staining of the lamellae ranges from whitish to brownish. The spore powder of anise Zählings is whitish - cream color.
The stem is 30-80 (-100 ) mm long, 4-8 (-10 ) mm thick. The surface of the full, elastic stalk längsgefurcht, the stem color corresponds to the upper half of the coloring of the hat. The lower part of the stem is dark gray to reddish brown. The fruiting bodies are fused to the stem base tufted together.
The soft and cartilaginous tough and watery flesh of the fungus is whitish colored to pale brownish. The smell of the fungus is clearly anise, which also has a mild taste Aniskomponente. A person referred to in the literature variety inolens has no licorice aroma.
Microscopic characteristics
The rounded, hyaline ornamented spores are smooth to feinwarzig and contain an oil droplet. They measure 3.9 to 5.2 × 3.9 to 4.7 microns. The cylindrical viersporigen basidia are 20-25 microns long and 5-5.5 microns thick.
Artabgrenzung and systematics
The anise - Zähling is difficult to confuse with its typical fruit body shape and the characteristic odor with other fungal species. He is the type species of its genus, with their systematic position is still controversial. Moser ordered the type 1983 " porialen genera with lamelligem hymenophore " to. She had previously Singer performed under the Tricholomataceae, but later excluded from this family again. The current allocation to the Auriscalpiaceae goes back to Maas Geesteranus 1963.
Ecology and phenology
The species grows on rotten stumps or roots saprobiontisch of deciduous trees, especially beeches; often they also colonized conifers. The fruiting takes place from July to November.
Dissemination
The species is distributed almost worldwide. Evidence is there from Australia, North Asia ( Siberia, Japan), North and Central America (USA, Canada. Panama) and Europe. In Europe, the anise Zähling is submeridional common to boreal. The distribution area is located in south-central Europe. The Zähling was detected in almost all of Europe. In the south, it occurs from Spain to the Ukraine, he is also widespread throughout Western and Central Europe. In Northern Europe, he can be found throughout Fennoscandia. In Sweden, the species was observed up to the 67th degree of latitude.
In Germany, the anise Zähling is distributed from the coast to the Alps, alternating compression areas and loosening areas.
Importance
The anise - Zähling is edible, though the literature due to the tough meat and aniseed rather a use is recommended as Würzpilz.