🇬🇧 powdery piggyback - 🇩🇪 Stäubender Zwitterling - 🇪🇪 Tolmav parasiitlehik

🇬🇧 powdery piggyback - 🇩🇪 Stäubender Zwitterling - 🇪🇪 Tolmav parasiitlehik - 🇷🇺 Астерофора дождевиковая 8/24/24—9/13/25

🆔 Asterophora lycoperdoides (Bull.) Ditmar
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills—thick, distant, often reduced or poorly formed, sometimes vein-like rather than clearly gilled, whitish to pale grey
ℹ️ Cap: Convex to nearly round, dry, initially whitish and a bit lumpy or roughened, quickly becoming covered by a dense orangish-brown chlamydospores powder
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate to the stipe
ℹ️ Stipe: Slender, more or less equal, surface dry, initially whitish or pale, becoming powdery orangish-brown, basal mycelium white
⚪ Spore print white
🍄 Parasitic on decaying mushrooms (Russula, Lactarius spp.), appears when the host has begun to blacken and decay, singly, groups in mixed, hardwood, coniferous forests, summer through autumn
💩 Inedible—too insubstantial, with foul smell
📏 Fruit body small, stipe 4–30 mm long, ~2–5 mm thick
📐 Cap 4–20 mm diameter
🧪 No significant staining reactions noted, flesh unchanging when cut
👃 Rotten and foul to decaying fungi substrate
👅 Foul
🔬 Basidiospores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline in KOH, ~5–6 × 4–5 µm, 4-sterigmate, chlamydospores globose to subglobose, ornamented, 16–20 × 14–17 µm, hyaline to faintly yellowish
🔤 Parasite fungi with malformed gills that fruiting on decaying Russula mushrooms, unique due to prolific asexual spore production