Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Microphale foetidum
 
   
   
 Author:

Microphale foetidum (Sow.:Fr.) Fr., Lilloa 22:305. 1951.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 1-3.5 cm, flat, grayish red to dark red, glabrous, margin striate. Gills adnate, slightly crowded of several lengths and veins, pale yellow, smooth. Stipe central, 1-2.5 × 0.1 cm, solid, coriaceous, red brown, glabrous. Spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 7-8 × 3-3.5 μm. Hyphae with clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Yilan: Fushan Botanical Garden, on trunk, 29 May 1995, CWN 00858 (TNM F0003306).

 
 
 
 Habitat: On wood of broad-leaved forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Europe.

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Breitenbach, J. and Kranzlin, E. 1991; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is edible.