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Nolanea staurospora.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Kreuzsporiger Glöckling
Nolanea staurospora Mushroom
Ref No: 9330
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Nolanea staurospora2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9331
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Nolanea staurospora3 Mushroom
Ref No: 9332
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

Nolanea staurospora Bres. syn. Rhodophyllus staurosporus (Bres.) Lange Kreuzsporiger Glöckling. Cap 1–3cm across, convex with an indistinct umbo, dark brown, reddish-brown or greyish, hygrophanous, drying pallid, striate when moist. Stem 20–60 x 1–3mm, paler than the cap, covered in long silky whitish fibrils. Flesh concolorous. Smell mealy. Gills whitish at first then pink. Spore print pink. Spores quadrangular to stellate, 9–10 x 7–9um. Habitat in grassland and open woodland. Season autumn. Common. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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