Hypholoma
Genus of fungi
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::summary Genus of fungi ::
| image = Hypholoma fasciculare LC0091.jpg | image_caption = Hypholoma fasciculare | taxon = Hypholoma | authority = (Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871) | type_species = Hypholoma fasciculare | type_species_authority = (Huds.:Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = Naematoloma P.Karst. (1880) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text
Hypholoma is a genus of fungi which are quite well known due to the commonness of sulphur tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) on stumps in temperate woodlands. Species in this genus are easily recognizable because the dark spores create a distinctive greenish effect on the yellow cap underside. Hypholoma means "mushrooms with threads" because of the thread-like veil that connects the cap to the stem when young and for the bundles of rhizomorphs which radiate outwards from the stem base. Other well-known species are H. capnoides and H. lateritium.
Synonyms
Sometimes Hypholoma has not been considered a genus in its own right, but it has been grouped together with Stropharia and Psilocybe under the name of Geophila, Naematoloma, or Nematoloma.
General characteristics
- The fruiting bodies mostly have a central stipe. Some are medium-sized and there are also smaller species. The caps range in colour from yellow/brown to brick red.
- The spore colour is dark brown to black.
- The cap is smooth.
- The developing mushroom is enveloped in a veil, but in Hypholoma this can be seen only in very young examples. This means that there is no well-defined ring, and nor are there distinctive flakes on the cap, but there may be cottony ring zones on the stipe, sometimes coloured by the dark spores.
- The genus is widespread throughout the world and its best known representatives grow on dead wood, whilst some others grow in moss, sometimes on moors.
Species
- H. acutum
- H. aporum
- H. australe
- H. australianum
- H. brunneum
- H. californicum
- [[File:Mycomorphbox Edible.png|20px]] H. capnoides
- H. castilloi
- H. confusum
- H. dispersum
- H. elongatum
- H. epixanthum
- H. ericaeoides
- H. ericaeum
- H. eximium
- [[File:Mycomorphbox Poison.png|20px]] H. fasciculare
- H. flavorhizum
- H. flavovirens
- H. fragile
- H. frowardii
- H. laeticolor
- [[File:Mycomorphbox Edible.png|20px]] H. lateritium
- H. litorale
- H. marginatum
- H. murinacea
- H. myosotis
- H. ornellum
- H. peckianum
- H. peregrinum
- H. perplexum
- H. polylepidis
- H. polytrichi
- H. popperianum
- H. puiggarii
- H. radicosoides
- H. radicosum
- H. rickenii
- H. rubrococcineum
- H. solitarium
- H. subdispersum
- H. subericaeum
- H. subviride
- H. vinosum
- H. xanthocephalum
Gallery
Image:Hypholoma capnoides.jpg|Hypholoma capnoides File:Hypholoma fasciculare 040926w.jpg|Hypholoma fasciculare File:Hypholoma fasciculare (1).JPG|Hypholoma fasciculare File:Hypholoma.radicosum.-.lindsey.jpg|Hypholoma radicosum Zwafelkop (Hypholoma), 22-11-2023. (d.j.b).jpg| Hypholoma in a deep hole in the crotch of a trunk of an Alder (Alnus).
References
References
- "''Hypholoma'' (Fr.) P.Kumm. 1871". International Mycological Association.
- 1-58008-175-4
- Miller, Orson K.. (2006). "North American mushrooms : a field guide to edible and inedible fungi". Guilford, Conn. : Falcon Guide.
- Trudell, Steve. (2009). "Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest". Portland, Or. : Timber Press.
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