Species flashcards

Description

Cap: 3-8 cm tall, 2-5 cm in diameter; slightly twisted, wrinkled, often saddle-shaped, composed of two or three irregular lobes, margin wavy; free or slightly adnate to the stem; whitish, whitish-ochre.

Hymenium: Covers the surface of the lobed cap.

Stem: 4-7 cm long, 1-3 cm thick; cylindrical, slightly widening downwards, ventricose; irregularly hollow inside; surface has longitudinal, protruding ridges, with occasional transverse connections; whitish both outside and inside.

Flesh: Thin, brittle; white; no particular smell and taste.

Spore: White; 18-20 x 10-13μm; elliptical, transparent - hyaline (glass-like).

Occurrence: From August to November, in forests, along forest roads, not rare species.

Edibility: Mildly poisonous.

Confusion: Similar to the mildly poisonous sandy saddle, but its cap is dark brown, black, its stem is not grooved and grows in spring, and the similarly poisonous, grooved-stemmed, gray saddle.

Note: Helvella is the name of an ancient aromatic herb. crispa is of Latin origin, meaning wavy or wrinkled - referring to the saddle as a distorted cap.

Species description: In 1772, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli described this forest mushroom and named it Phallus crispa. This indicated that Scopoli thought it was closely related to Phallus impudicus (stinkhorn). In 1822, the Swedish Elias Magnus Fries mycologist transferred this species to the Helvella genus, and it has been known as Helvella crispa ever since.

Taxonomy

1. PhylumAscomycota
2. ClassPezizomycetes
3. OrderPezizales
4. FamilyHelvellaceae
5. GenusHelvella

• Species: crispa
• Described by: (Scop.) Fr. (1822)
• Hungarian name: fodros papsapkagomba
• Lifestyle: saprotroph
• Edibility: poisonous