Hypholoma-lateritium_30

Description:

Hypholoma lateritium (Schff.: Fr.) Kummer, syn. Hypholoma sublateritium (Fr.) Quelet, Psilocybe lateritia (Schff.: Fr.) Noord.Brick Tuft, Brick Cap, DE: Ziegelroter SchwefelkopfSlo.: rjavordea veplenjaa, openatordea veplenjaaDat.: Dec. 3. 2018Lat.: 46,337838 Long.: 13,542293Code: Bot_1168/2018_DSC4547Habitat: grassland; almost flat terrain; cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) ground, dry sunny place; under the canopy of Fagus sylvatica; partly protected from direct rain by the canopy; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 480 m (1.570 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: small rotten (in its final stage of disintegration) stump of probably Fagus sylvatica or Ostrya carpinifolia.Place: Bovec basin; Uje place west of the town, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC. Comments: These mushrooms always attract me by their beauty. They are common here around. Usually they grow in large groups, but this time only three quite young fruit bodies were displayed. Gils were still bright, later, in my refrigerator, they turned much darker brown with slight violet tint.Pileus diameter of the largest fruit body was 5.8 cm and its thickness 16 mm; stipe 10 cm long and up to 14 mm in diameter; smell indistinctive, taste unpleasant, somewhat biter; SP gray-brown with a violet tint, oac525.Spores smooth. Dimensions: (6,4) 6,7 - 7,3 (8,1) (3,6) 3,8 - 4,3 (4,6) m; Q = (1,6) 1,64 - 1,8 (1,9); N = 35; Me = 7 4,1 m; Qe = 1,7. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water, fresh material. AmScope MA500 digital camera.Herbarium: Index Herbariorum LJF @ Mycotheca and lichen herbarium of Slovenian Forestry Institute. Ref.:(1) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol. 4. Verlag Mykologia (2000), p 328. (2) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 4., Ulmer (2003), p 358. (3) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 605. (4) A. Poler, ed., Seznam gliv Slovenije, 2nd Ed., Assoc. of Mycol. Soc. of Slovenia (in Slovenian) (1998), p 224. (5) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 232.