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Hypochnicium vellerum.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Hypochnicium vellereum Mushroom
Ref No: 8383
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Red or redish or pink
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Other
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

Hypochnicium vellerum (Elli. & Crag.) Parm. syn. Corticium vellereum Ellis & Cragin Fruit body resupinate, 2–10cm across, 0.1–0.2mm thick, white, cream or pink-buff, margin white, fibrillose in young specimens. Spores white, globose, with uneven thickened walls 7–8m. In addition to basidiospores this fungus also produces apical or intercalary chlamydospores on hyphae in the subhymenial tissue. These chlamydospores are rounded to pear-shaped with thickened dextrinoid walls, and measure 8–10´6–8m. Hyphal structure monomitic; generative hyphae thin to somewhat thick-walled with clamp-connections. Habitat deciduous wood. Season late autumn to late winter. Occasional. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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