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Galerina Mairei
''Galerina'' is a genus of small brown-spore saprobic fungi (colloquially often ''mushrooms''), with over 300 species found throughout the world from the far north to remote Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. The genus is most noted for some extremely poisonous species which are occasionally confused with hallucinogenic species of ''Psilocybe''. Species are typically small and hygrophanous, with a slender and brittle stipe (mycology), stem. They are often found growing on wood, and when on the ground have a preference for mossy habitats. ''Galerina'' means ''helmet-like''. Taxonomic definition The genus ''Galerina'' is defined as small mushrooms of wikt:mycenoid, mycenoid stature, that is, roughly similar in form to ''Mycena'' species: a small conical to bell-shaped pileus (mycology), cap, and lamella (mycology), gills attached to a long and slender cartilaginous stipe (mycology), stem. Species have a pileipellis that is a cutis, and ornamented spores that are brown in depo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galerina Marginata
''Galerina marginata'', known colloquially as funeral bell, deadly skullcap, autumn skullcap or deadly galerina, is a species of extremely poisonous mushroom-forming fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae of the order Agaricales. It contains the same deadly amatoxins found in the death cap (''Amanita phalloides''). Ingestion in toxic amounts causes severe liver damage with vomiting, diarrhea, hypothermia, and eventual death if not treated rapidly. About ten poisonings have been attributed to the species now grouped as ''G. marginata'' over the last century. ''G. marginata'' is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe, North America, and Asia, and has also been found in Australia. It is a wood-rotting fungus that grows predominantly on decaying conifer wood. The fruit bodies of the mushroom have brown to yellow-brown caps that fade in color when drying. The gills are brownish and give a rusty spore print. A well-defined membranous ring is typically seen o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
