Galerina
| Galerina | |
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| Galerina marginata | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hymenogastraceae (formerly Cortinariaceae) |
| Genus: |
Galerina Earle (1909) |
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Galerina vittiformis (Fr.) Singer (1950) |
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| Subgenera | |
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Galerina Kühner |
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| Galerina sp. | |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
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gills on hymenium |
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cap is convex |
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hymenium is adnexed |
 
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stipe has a ring or is bare |
 
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spore print is yellow-orange to brown |
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ecology is saprotrophic |
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edibility: deadly |
Galerina Kühner
Naucoriopsis Kühner
Tubariopsis Kühner
Galerina is a genus of small brown-spored saprobic mushrooms, with over 300 species found throughout the world, from the far north to remote Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. Species are typically small and hygrophanous, with a slender and brittle stem. They are often found growing on wood, and when on the ground have a preference for mossy habitats. This group is most noted for toxic species which are occasionally confused with hallucinogenic species of Psilocybe.
Galerina means helmet-like.
The genus Galerina is defined as small mushrooms of stature, that is, roughly similar in form to Mycena species: a small conical to bell-shaped cap, and gills attached to a long and slender cartilaginous stem. Species have a pileipellis that is a cutis, and ornamented spores that are brown in deposit, where the spore ornamentation comes from an extra spore covering.
Galerina fruiting bodies are typically small, undistinguished mushrooms with a typical "little brown mushroom" morphology and a yellow-brown, light brown to cinnamon-brown spore print. The pileus is typically glabrous and often hygrophanous, and a cortina-type veil is present in young specimens of roughly half of recognized species, though it sometimes disappears as the mushroom ages in many of these species. Microscopically, they are highly variable as well, though most species have spores that are ornamented, lack a germ pore, and have a plage. Many species also have characteristic cystidia. However, there are many exceptions, and many species of Galerina lack one or more of these microscopic characteristics. Ecologically, all Galerina are saprobic, growing in habitats like rotting wood or in moss.
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