Rhizopogon parvisporus
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Rhizopogon parvisporus is a small truffle- like mushroom from the family of root truffle relatives. The species is native to Canada.
description
The roughly spherical to irregularly shaped fruit bodies of the mushroom have a diameter of 10… 21 millimeters when fresh, but tend to shrink when they dry out. They have a hard, ridged surface that is yellowish brown or lighter. The peridium is 300… 570 µm thick. The spores have almost the shape of an ellipsoid and are seldom longer than 5 µm. They often contain two droplets of oil, and occasionally three or five.
Habitat and Distribution
The mushroom is only known from Fort Smith ( Northwest Territories ) and Newfoundland . At the former site it was found along a river bank in spruce forests, at the latter on mossy slopes and thickets of alder and fir trees .
Taxonomy
Rhizopogon parvisporus was first described in 1962 by the mycologist Constance A. Bowerman . The type location is Newfoundland .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b C. A. Bowerman, JW Groves: Notes on fungi from northern Canada. V. Gasteromycetes . In: Canadian Journal of Botany . 40, No. 1, 1962, pp. 239-254. doi : 10.1139 / b62-022 .
- ↑ Rhizopogon parvisporus Bowerman, Can. J. Bot. 40: 239 (1962) . In: Index Fungorum . Retrieved on August 29, 2019: "Record Details"