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| The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland |
Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing basidia and basidiospores; persistent; angiocarpic; a globose or tuberiform gasterocarp (aporate, with a labyrinthoid chamber); brightly pigmented; brick- red, or orange (brick-red on the outside, and orange within). The basidia ‘unmodified’. The basidiospores with a peri-appendicular corona; statismosporic; cream; ornamented (verrucose); inamyloid.
The hyphal walls lamellate, with a thin, electron-dense outer layer and a relatively thick, electron-transparent inner layer. The generative hyphae not inflated.
Ecology. The fruit-bodies subterranean, or subterranean to not subterranean (underground or half-exposed); when more or less epigeal, borne on the ground. Found in broad-leaved woodland, in mixed woodland (usually under trees).
Representation in Britain and Ireland. 1 species in Britain (S. caroticolor); Stephanospora.
World representation. 4 species; genera 1. “Widespread”.
Classification. Basidiomycota; Basidiomycetes; Agaricomycetidae; Russulales (? - formerly Stereales).
Illustrations. • Stephanospora caroticola (Berkeley). STEPHANOSPORACEAE. 1, Stephanospora caroticola (Berk.) Pat. HYMENOGASTERACEAE. 2, Hymenogaster citrinus Vittad. PHALLACEAE. 3, Phallus impudicus L. (Stinkhorn). GEASTRACEAE. 4, Geastrum fimbriatum Fr. LYCOPERDACEAE. 5, Bovista nigrescens Pers.; 6, Bovista plumbea Pers.; 7, Handkea utriformis (Bull.) Pers.; 8, Lycoperdon umbrinum Pers, or Lycoperdon molle Pers.? From Berkeley (1860). All about 1.5 X life size, or with sections more enlarged.
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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’.
