Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum

Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Callistosporiaceae
Genus: Callistosporium
Species:
C. luteo-olivaceum
Binomial name
Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum
Synonyms[1]
  • Agaricus luteo-olivaceus Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1859)
Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum
Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnate or adnexed
Stipe is bare
Spore print is white
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is unknown

Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum is a species of agaric fungus in the family Callistosporiaceae. It was originally described in 1859 as Agaricus luteo-olivaceus by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1859. Rolf Singer transferred it to Callistosporium in 1946. The fungus has an extensive synonymy.[1]

The brownish mushroom has caps up to 4.5 centimetres (1+34 in) wide. The gills are yellowish and close. The stem is 7 cm (2+34 in) long,[2] fibrillose and hollow, with yellowish tomentum near the base.[3] The spores are colorless, producing a whitish print[2] or a yellow color in ammonia.[3] The species can resemble Tricholomopsis aurea, T. sulfureoides, and Gymnopilus picreus.[2]

Although rare, C. luteo-olivaceum is widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas of Europe and North America.[4] In 2014, it was reported growing in pine forests in Western Himalaya, Pakistan.[5] The species is inedible.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "GSD Species Synonymy: Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Singer". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  2. ^ a b c Audubon (2023). Mushrooms of North America. Knopf. p. 483. ISBN 978-0-593-31998-7.
  3. ^ a b Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
  4. ^ Bas C, Kuyper TW, Noordeloos ME (1995). Flora Agaricina Neerlandica – 3. CRC Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-90-5410-616-6.
  5. ^ Saba M, Khalid AN (2014). "First report of Callistosporium luteoolivaceum from Western Himalaya, Pakistan". Mycotaxon. 129: 73–77. doi:10.5248/129.73.
  6. ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.