Clitocybe albirhiza
| Clitocybe albirhiza | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Clitocybaceae |
| Genus: | Clitocybe |
| Species: | C. albirhiza
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| Binomial name | |
| Clitocybe albirhiza A.H.Sm. (1963) | |
Clitocybe albirhiza, commonly known as the snowmelt clitocybe, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Tricholomataceae. It is found in high-elevation locations in the western United States.
Taxonomy
American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith first described the species officially in 1963, from specimens collected in June, 1954, near Payette Lake, Idaho.[1]
The species name refers to
Description
The cap measures 2–8 cm (3⁄4–3+1⁄8 in),[3] and is initially convex before flattening and finally becoming funnel-shaped. Its color depends on its state of hydration: when dry, it is buff; when wet, it is cinnamon-buff to clay color (often with concentric differentiations); new blooms are typically whitish.[2] The gills have an adnate to decurrent attachment to the stipe and are closely spaced, sometimes with "veins" connected between them; they are roughly the same color as the cap, or paler. The stipe measures 2–8 cm (3⁄4–3+1⁄8 in) long by 0.5–2 cm (1⁄4–3⁄4 in) wide,[3] and is either equal in width throughout, or tapers on either end. Initially stuffed with a cottony mycelium when young, it hollows in maturity. Colored similar to the cap, the stipe surface ranges from smooth to canescent (covered with a whitish-grey bloom) when wet, to fibrillose-striate when dry. The stipe base features a dense mass of whitish rhizomorphs embedded with needles and other forest debris. The flesh is mostly thin except for the disc (a circular region in the center of the cap). It has a slight to unpleasant odor and a poor, bitter taste.[1] The mushroom is considered inedible.[4]
The
Habitat and distribution
Clitocybe albirhiza | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex or umbonate |
 | Hymenium is adnate or decurrent |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Edibility is unknown |
Fruit bodies of Clitocybe albirhiza grow scattered, in groups, or in clusters under
Similar species
Clitocybe glacialis and Melanoleuca angelesiana are similar in appearance.[3] Clitocybe ramigena is similar, but smaller and not so bitter.[2]
References
- ^ JSTOR 3756319.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
- ^ OCLC 797915861.
- ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
- ^ PMID 4314286.
- JSTOR 3566643.
- ISBN 978-0-520-95360-4.