Pilothecium

A pilothecium is a fruiting body form of mushrooms from the subdivision of Agaricomycotinan , the fruiting body of which is more or less divided into a hat and a stem. The stalked fruiting bodies of Porlingen are also known as pilothecium.

The fruiting bodies can be in:

• centrally or eccentrically stalked ( stipilate ),
• laterally pedicled ( pleural ),
• console-shaped ( dimilate ) and
• with the top of the hat on the substrate ( resupinate ) types

be divided. There are flowing boundaries to the effusoreflex fruit bodies (crustothecia).

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  Zuchtchampignon ( Agaricus bisporus ) stipilater fruiting

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  Oyster mushrooms ( Pleurotus ostreatus ) pleural fruiting bodies

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  Butterfly tramete ( Trametes versicolor ) dimilater fruiting body

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  Dense-leaved Lilliput oyster mushroom ( Resupinatus applicatus ) resupinate fruiting bodies

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• Heinrich Dörfelt , Gottfried Jetschke (Ed.): Dictionary of mycology. 2nd Edition. Spectrum, Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9 .