Species flashcards

Description

Cap: 5-10 cm in diameter; convex, then flattening, often bluntly umbonate, finally becoming slightly depressed, with wavy margin; gray, grayish-yellow, light olive-gray, whitish-gray in dry weather; surface bare, silky shiny.

Gills: Slightly adnate to the stem, wide; white when young, then pinkish, finally pinkish-flesh-colored; their edge more or less cracked.

Stem: 5-12 cm long, 1-1.5 cm thick; cylindrical or tapering downwards; whitish; surface longitudinally fibrous, silky shiny, slightly powdery at the apex.

Flesh: Very thin in the cap, fibrous in the stem; whitish; odorless or weakly alkaline smell; astringent taste.

Spore: Pink; 8-10.5 x 7-8μm; rounded-angled.

Occurrence: From June to November, in deciduous forests, common species.

Edibility: Mildly poisonous, causes gastrointestinal problems.

Confusion: Similar to the poisonous livid pinkgill and the edible brown shield, clustered domecap and the spring pinkgill.

Note: rhodopolium comes from the prefix rhodo - red or reddish (Greek for rose), and the word polium - stem. Referring to the color of the gills and the stem. Entoloma comes from the ancient Greek words entos - inner, and loma - edge.

Species description: In 1818, the great Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described it and gave it the scientific name Agaricus rhodopolius. In 1871, the German mycologist Paul Kummer transferred this species to the entholoma genus, so its scientific name became Entoloma rhodopolium.

Taxonomy

1. PhylumBasidiomycota
2. ClassAgaricomycetes
3. OrderAgaricales
4. FamilyEntolomataceae
5. GenusEntoloma

• Species: rhodopolium
• Described by: (Fr.) P. Kumm.
• Hungarian name: zöldesszürke döggomba
• Lifestyle: soil saprotroph, mycorrhizal(?)
• Edibility: poisonous