Image of Bear Cockleshell

Description:

Slo.: medvedja ilavka - Habitat: Mixed, predominantly hardwood woodland, nearly flat terrain, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), partly protected from direct rain by trees canopies, in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 490 m (1.600 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: rotten (almost in the final stage) branch of a broad leaved (possibly Fagus sylvatica) tree, lying on ground, fully covered with mosses. - Comments: Growing in groups, pileus across up to 3,5 cm (1.5 inch), taste unpleasant and smell indistinctive. SP whitish with yellow tint (oac815), abundant. Caps brown with red tint (oac700), tomentose part dark brown (oac734), gills light brown-gray (oac702), lighter than the caps. Pore layer concolorous with pore surface. Spores should be minutely spiny but I can't see these spikes. - Spore dimensions: 4.1 (SD = 0.3) x 3.4 (SD = 0.2) micr., Q = 1.22 (SD = 0.07), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Ref.: (1) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 3, Ulmer (2001), p 9 . (2) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 124. (3) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 144. (4) http://www.mushroomexpert.com/lentinellus_ursinus.html .