Nestlings

This article deals with a genus of fungi, for the nestlings of birds and rodents, see Nestling .

Nestlings
Stuffed nestling ( Nidularia deformis )
Systematics
Subdivision : Agaricomycotina Class : Agaricomycetes Subclass : Agaricomycetidae Order : Mushroom-like (Agaricales) Family : Mushroom relatives (Agaricaceae) Genre : Nestlings
Scientific name
Nidularia
Fr.

The nestlings ( Nidularia ) are a genus of mushrooms from the mushroom relatives family . The genus belongs to the group of belly mushrooms .

features

The small fruiting body is initially sack-shaped and spherical, and finally opened in a bowl-shaped manner. It has no closing membrane ( epiphragma ). The shell ( peridia ) is thick, made up of one layer and cream to cinnamon in color. When ripe it tears open with an irregular crack. Spore packages ( peridioles ) are numerous. When ripe they are brown. They are not connected to the peridia by a mycelial cord ( funiculus ).

The spores are ellipsoidally shaped, smooth, hyaline and thick-walled. The shell ( peridia ) consists of thick-walled, thorny hyphae . The hyphae septa do not have buckles . The basidia are slender, two- to four-pored and have no basal buckle. There are no cystids .

Generic delimitation

The crucibulum ( Crucibulum ) and the cyathus ( Cyathus ) have peridiola with Funiculus . Mycocalia has a white peridia made up of normal, non-thorny hyphae. The fruit bodies are also significantly smaller. Since they are often less than 1 mm in size, the genus does not belong in principle to the large mushrooms .

ecology

The nestlings grow as saprobionts on moist branches and pieces of wood lying on the ground, including tree stumps as well as on the ground trunks of deciduous and conifers. Often they appear to be sitting directly on the floor.

Systematics and types

The nestlings used to belong to the nestling relatives (Nidulariaceae) within the now also obsolete order of the nestling-like (Nidulariales). The genera it contains are now counted among the mushroom relatives . The genus includes up to 3 species in Europe, North America and Australia, of which only the stuffed nestling ( Nidularia deformis ) occurs in Europe .

Nestlings ( Nidularia )

German name Scientific name Author quote Stuffed nestling Nidularia deformis (Willdenow 1788: Persoon 1801) Frieze in Fries & Nordholm 1817   Nidularia farcta 1 (Roth) Fr. 1823   Nidularia pulvinata (Pig.) Fr. 1823

¹The species rank of this taxon is not recognized by all authors.

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literature

• Achim Bollmann, Andreas Gminder , Peter Reil: List of illustrations of large European mushrooms. 4th edition. Genre CD. Black Forest Mushroom Teaching Show , Hornberg 2007, ISSN  0932-920X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Paul M. Kirk, Paul F. Cannon, David W. Minter, JA Stalpers: Dictionary of the Fungi . 10th edition. CABI Europe, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (UK) 2008, ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8 (784 pages).
2. ^ German Josef Krieglsteiner (Ed.), Andreas Gminder , Wulfard Winterhoff: Die Großpilze Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Stand mushrooms: inguinal, club, coral and stubble mushrooms, belly mushrooms, boletus and deaf mushrooms. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3531-0 , p. 160.
3. ↑ Ewald Gerhardt: FSVO manual mushrooms . 4th edition. BLV, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8354-0053-3 , p. 491 .
4. ^ Nidularia at the NCBI
5. ^ Nidularia in Species Fungorum

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