''Cystoagaricus strobilomyces'' is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae and the type species of the '' Cystoagaricus'' genus

Taxonomy

It was first described in 1945 by the American mycologist William Murrill who discovered the species in Florida and classified it as ''Nolanea strobilomyces.'' In 1947 the German mycologist

Rolf Singer Rolf Singer (June 23, 1906 – January 18, 1994) was a Germany, German-born mycologist and one of the most important Taxonomy (biology), taxonomists of gilled mushrooms (agarics) in the 20th century. After receiving his Ph.D. at the University ...

created the new genus ''Cystoagaricus'' and placed this species within it.

Etymology

The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''strobilomyces'' derives from this mushroom's resemblance to members of the ''

Strobilomyces ''Strobilomyces'' is a genus of boletes (mushrooms having a spongy mass of pores under the cap). The only well-known European species is the type species '' S. strobilaceus'' (also named ''S. floccopus''), known in English as "old man of the wood ...

'' genus as a result of the spiky squamules on the cap.

Description

''Cystoagaricus strobilomyces'' is a small mushroom with grey flesh which possesses distinctive scales or spikes on the cap. Cap: 4-30mm. Convex, umbonate or campanulate. Grey to brown in colour with squamules (spikes or scales) which contrast the cap. Gills: Start grey discolouring through pale blue and dark brown as it ages. Adnate or adnexed. Stem: 5-40 tall and 1-3mm in diameter. Grey and covered in scales or woolly tufts. Spore print: Dark brown. Spores: Phaeseoliform (bean shaped), mitriform. 6-7.5 x 5-6 μm. Cystoagaricus_strobilomyces_02

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10465213 Psathyrellaceae Cystoagaricus Fungi described in 1947