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| The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland |
Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing basidia and basidiospores; angiocarpic; a globose or tuberiform gasterocarp (the gleba with small locules and no real hymenium, mucilaginous at maturity and milky when cut); stinking foetid-foecal when mature. Gleba becoming mucilaginous and foetid. The basidia ‘unmodified’. The basidiospores thick walled; statismosporic; hyaline; ornamented (thick walled, with reticulato-alveolate ornamentation, and a gelatinous myxosporium); inamyloid.
The hyphal walls lamellate, with a thin, electron-dense outer layer and a relatively thick, electron-transparent inner layer.
Chemical reactions. Supposedly not yielding prenylated phenols and quinones.
Representation in Britain and Ireland. 2 species in Britain; Leucogaster.
World representation. 25 species; genera 2. North temperate, widespread.
Classification. Basidiomycota; Basidiomycetes; Agaricomycetidae; Boletales.
Comments. The gasterocarp loculate, the lacunose gleba compact.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland. Version: 5th August 2019. delta-intkey.com’.