Mycena zephirus

Rostfleckiger Mycena ( Mycena Zephirus )

The Rostfleckige Ling helmet or helmet Rusty Ling ( Mycena Zephirus ) is a species of fungus in the family of Mycena relatives ( Mycenaceae ). The fruiting bodies appear from September to November preferably in coniferous forests. The fungus is not edible mushroom.

• 5.1 Notes and references

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The cap is 2-4 cm broad, campanulate at first, but soon spread or hunched flat. The surface is grooved to radially wrinkled and dirty whitish, pale cream to greyish brown and soon shows red-brown spots. The crest is typically colored fuchsigbräunlich.

The slats are bulged grown on a stick or run with gear it down a bit. You are away and are easily connected to the base veined. Young fins are whitish, but soon get rust-brown or flesh- pink spots. The spore powder is white.

The tubed, finely stalk is 6-8 cm long and 0.2-0.4 cm wide. He is cream to brownish gray and brownish-red colored, at least in the lower half of the age. The stem base is white tomentose to striegelig. The thin, whitish meat smells and tastes weak radish -like.

Microscopic characteristics

The narrow, almost cylindrical spores are 10-13 microns long and 4-5 microns wide. The blunt spindled to slightly branched cystidia are smooth.

Artabgrenzung

The quite similar spotted Mycena ( Mycena maculata ) usually grows in tufts on or dead leaves or softwood.

Ecology and distribution

The fruiting bodies of Rostfleckigen helmet blank bloom from September to November. They usually grow in troops under conifers, especially in rich moss fir and mountain spruce forests.

Importance

The Rostfleckige helmet Ling is not edible mushroom.

Swell

• Paul Kirk: Mycena Zephirus. In: Species Fungorum. Accessed on 19 September 2013.
• Mycena Zephirus. In: MycoBank.org. International Mycological Association, accessed on September 19, 2013 ( English).