Conocybe tenera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Bolbitiaceae
Genus: Conocybe
Species:
C. tenera
Binomial name
Conocybe tenera
Conocybe tenera
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is conical or convex
Hymenium is adnate
Stipe is bare
Spore print is brown
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is inedible

Conocybe tenera, commonly known as the brown dunce cap or common cone head,[2] is a widely distributed member of the genus Conocybe. This mushroom is the type species for the genus Conocybe.

Description

Conocybe tenera is a small saprotrophic mushroom with a conic to convex cap and is smooth and colored cinnamon brown. It is usually less than 2 cm across and is striate almost to the center. The gills are adnate and colored pale brown, darkening in age. The spores are yellowish brown, smooth and ellipsoid with a germ pore, measuring 12 x 6 micrometres. The stem is 3 to 9 cm long, 1.5 mm thick, and is equal width for the whole length, sometimes with some swelling at the base. It lacks an annulus (ring), is hollow and pruinose near the top.

Distribution and habitat

Widely distributed across the world. Found in meadows and cities.

Edibility

The species is inedible,[3] and is related to at least one species which contains the deadly amatoxin.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Fayod, Victor (1889). "Prodrome d'une histoire naturelle des agaricinés". Annales des sciences naturelles: Botanique. 7. 9: 357.
  2. ↑ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
  3. ↑ Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
  4. ↑ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.

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