Baeospora myosura
| Baeospora myosura | |
|---|---|
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Cyphellaceae |
| Genus: | Baeospora |
| Species: | B. myosura |
| Binomial name | |
| Baeospora myosura | |
Baeospora myosura | |
|---|---|
 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
 | Hymenium is adnexed |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is white to cream |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is unknown |
Baeospora myosura, commonly known as conifercone cap, is a species of fungus that produces agaricoid fruit bodies. The cap is convex before flattening, 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) wide, and coloured pale brown to cream.[2] The lamellae are adnexed, pale, and very close.[2] The spore print is white to cream and amyloid.
The mushroom grows on decaying conifer cones and is common in North America[2] and Europe. It is nonpoisonous but of unknown edibility.[3]
References
- ^ Singer R. (1938). "Notes sur quelques Basidiomycetes". Revue de Mycologie (in French). 3: 187–99.
- ^ a b c Audubon (2023). Mushrooms of North America. Knopf. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-593-31998-7.
- ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.