13/Sep/24, 3:18 PM
Lobotka, Võrumaa, Estonia
Pine dominant forest, on decaying Russula sp. fungus
57°57'55.4"N 27°35'59.0"E
🔆 Mild overcast, forest shade
Original Instagram postCollybia cirrhata
piggyback shanklet
- Scientific identification
- Collybia cirrhata (Schumach.) Quél.
- Family
- Tricholomataceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Collybia
Names across languages
- English: piggyback shanklet
- German: Gelbknolliger Sklerotienrübling
- Finnish: Loisjuurekasta
- Estonian: Narmaskõrges
- Russian: Коллибия кудрявая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-09-13.
Hymenium
Gills, relatively crowded, white to cream in color, becoming slightly yellowish or brownish with age
Cap
convex to flat when mature, sometimes with a small central depression, surface is smooth, often translucent-striate, colored white to cream, margin is initially incurved, becoming wavy with age
Hymenium Attachment
Free to adnexed
Stipe
thin, and thread-like, color is white to pale yellow, surface is smooth, slightly translucent
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic, growing on decayed remains of old fruit bodies of Russula or Lactarius spp, damp, decaying litter in deciduous and coniferous forests, late summer to autumn
Edibility
Inedible, insubstantial to be of culinary interest
Fruit body
Fruit Body: 1–4 cm tall, stipe 1–3 cm long, 0.5–1 mm thick
Dimensions
Cap: 0.5–1.5 cm in diameter
Odour
Odour indistinct
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, non-amyloid, 4–6 x 2.5–3.5 µm, basidia mostly two- to four-spored, pileipellis is composed of filamentous hyphae
Overview
Tiny and fragile saprobic mushroom that grows on decayed remnants of other fungi
1872). Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard, Sér. 2 5: 96.
Field encounters
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