Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Mycena haematopus
 
   
   
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Basionym: Agaricus haematopus Pers., Observ. mycol. (Copenhagen) 2: 56. 1799.

Mycena haematopus (Pers.: Fr.) Kummer, Führer Pilzk. (Zerbst). 1871.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 1-2.5 cm, campanulate, pale red to dark red, glabrous, striate, producing droplets of blood red latex on cutting. Gills adnate, slightly distant of several lengths and veins, white, smooth. Stipe central, 8-10 × 0.3 cm, cylindrical, hollow, dark red, tomentose. Spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I+, 9-10 × 6-7 μm. Cystidia fusiform, Hyphae with clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou: Meifeng, on rotten wood, 6 July 2000, CWN 04680 (TNM F0014320).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Clustered on rotten wood in mixed forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Cosmopolitan.

 
 
 
 References:

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

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
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