Xerula radicata



Cortinarius husseyiKey to Gilled Mushrooms     Key
This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.



TricholomaAgaricales     Order
Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)



Amanita onustaWhite Spored     Suborder
Spore print "light-colored": white or buff, sometimes tinged with pink or tan. Greenish and (except for the Russulales) yellow spore prints also go here
Stalk fibrous, not fracturing like a piece of chalk



TricholomataceaeTricholomataceae     Family
None of the special features distinguishing the other white-spored genera:
Gills not free, as in the Lepiotas and Amanitas
Basidia not extra-long, as in the Hygrophoraceae
Spores smooth, except for Lentinellus



TricholomaTerrestrial Trich     Subfamily
Growing on the ground



Xerula megalosporaWoodland Rooting Trich     Tribe
Stalk growing into the ground like a root
Growing in woods


Xerula megalosporaXerula     Genus
Cap brown or greyish brown; often slimy in wet weather; usually radially wrinkled or broadly striate
Stem white, sometimes with iridescent brown caulocystidia; fibrous, often visibly twisted
Gills white


Xerula radicata     (Rehlan: Fries) Dörfelt

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.


Xerula radicata

Diagnosis


Microscropic Characters


Comments

Redhead, Ginns & Shoemaker (1987) say that this species is rare, and that the common species with a glabrous stipe is Xerula megalospora. Some people ignore this, though, because Xerula radicata was the "original" species in this group, and just assign all white-stemmed collections to this name. I disagree with this practice


 

 


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