Hypholoma Vinosum
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Hypholoma'' is a genus of fungi which are quite well known due to the commonness of
sulphur tuft ''Hypholoma fasciculare'', commonly known as the sulphur tuft or clustered woodlover, is a common woodland mushroom, often in evidence when hardly any other mushrooms are to be found. This saprotrophic small gill fungus grows prolifically in la ...
(''Hypholoma fasciculare'') on stumps in temperate woodlands. Species in this genus are easily recognizable because the dark
spore In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions. Spores form part of the life cycles of many plants, algae, f ...
s create a distinctive greenish effect on the yellow cap underside. ''Hypholoma'' means "mushrooms with threads" because of the thread-like veil that connects the cap to the stem when young and for the bundles of
rhizomorph Mycelial cords are linear aggregations of parallel-oriented hyphae. The mature cords are composed of wide, empty vessel hyphae surrounded by narrower sheathing hyphae. Cords may look similar to plant roots, and also frequently have similar functio ...
s which radiate outwards from the
stem Stem or STEM may refer to: Plant structures * Plant stem, a plant's aboveground axis, made of vascular tissue, off which leaves and flowers hang * Stipe (botany), a stalk to support some other structure * Stipe (mycology), the stem of a mushro ...
base.Paul Stamets
''Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms''
p. 239, Ten Speed Press, 3rd ed. (2000),
Other well-known species are '' H. capnoides'' and '' H. lateritium''.


Synonyms

Sometimes ''Hypholoma'' has not been considered a genus in its own right, but it has been grouped together with ''
Stropharia The genus ''Stropharia'' (sometimes known by the common name roundheads) is a group of medium to large agarics with a distinct membranous ring on the stipe. Well-known members of this genus include the edible ''Stropharia rugosoannulata'' and th ...
'' and '' Psilocybe'' under the name of ''Geophila'', ''Naematoloma'', or ''Nematoloma''.


General characteristics

* The fruiting bodies mostly have a central stipe. Some are medium-sized and there are also smaller species. The caps range in colour from yellow/brown to brick red. * The spore colour is dark brown to black. * The cap is smooth. * The developing mushroom is enveloped in a veil, but in ''Hypholoma'' this can be seen only in very young examples. This means that there is no well-defined ring, and nor are there distinctive flakes on the cap, but there may be cottony ring zones on the stipe, sometimes coloured by the dark spores. * The genus is widespread throughout the world and its best known representatives grow on dead wood, whilst some others grow in moss, sometimes on moors.


Species

*'' H. acutum'' *'' H. aporum'' *'' H. australe'' *'' H. australianum'' *'' H. brunneum'' *'' H. californicum'' * '' H. capnoides'' *'' H. castilloi'' *'' H. confusum'' *'' H. dispersum'' *'' H. elongatum'' *'' H. epixanthum'' *'' H. ericaeoides'' *'' H. ericaeum'' *'' H. eximium'' * '' H. fasciculare'' *'' H. flavorhizum'' *'' H. flavovirens'' *'' H. fragile'' *'' H. frowardii'' *'' H. laeticolor'' * '' H. lateritium'' *'' H. litorale'' *'' H. marginatum'' *'' H. murinacea'' *'' H. myosotis'' *'' H. ornellum'' *'' H. peckianum'' *'' H. peregrinum'' *'' H. perplexum'' *'' H. polylepidis'' *'' H. polytrichi'' *'' H. popperianum'' *'' H. puiggarii'' *'' H. radicosoides'' *'' H. radicosum'' *'' H. rickenii'' *'' H. rubrococcineum'' *'' H. solitarium'' *'' H. subdispersum'' *'' H. subericaeum'' *'' H. subviride'' *'' H. vinosum'' *'' H. xanthocephalum''


Gallery

Image:Hypholoma capnoides.jpg, ''Hypholoma capnoides'' File:Hypholoma fasciculare 040926w.jpg, ''Hypholoma fasciculare'' File:Hypholoma fasciculare (1).JPG, ''Hypholoma fasciculare'' File:Hypholoma.radicosum.-.lindsey.jpg, ''Hypholoma radicosum''


See also

* List of Agaricales genera


References

{{Authority control Agaricales genera Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries