Spinellus bristly (Spinellus fusiger)
Systematics:
- Department: Mucoromycota (Mucoromycetes)
- Order: Mucorales
- Family: Phycomycetaceae ()
- Genus: Spinellus (Spinellus)
- Species: Spinellus fusiger (Spinellus bristly)
Synonyms:
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Spinellus Fusiger
- Spinellus bristling
- Mucor rhombosporus
- Mucor fusiger
- Spinellus rhombosporus
- Spinellus rhombosporus
- Spinellus rhombisporus
- Mucor macrocarpus
- Ascophora chalybea
- Ascophora chalybeus
Spinellus fusiger is a species of zygomycete fungi belonging to the genus Spinellus of the Phycomycetaceae family. Zygomycetes (lat.Zygomycota) were previously allocated to a special division of fungi, including the class Zygomycetes and Trichomycetes, where there were about 85 genera and 600 species. In 2007, a group of 48 researchers from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, China and other countries proposed a mushroom system from which the Zygomycota department was excluded. The above subdivisions are considered as having no definite systematic position in the Fungi kingdom.
Description
We've all seen the pincushion – a pad for needles and pins. Now imagine that instead of a pillow, we have a mushroom cap, from which a lot of the finest silver pins with dark balls at the ends stick out. Have you presented? This is what Spinellus bristly looks like.
In fact, this is a mold that parasitizes some types of Basidiomycetes. The entire genus Spinellus has 5 species, distinguishable only at the microscopic level.
Fruit bodies: white, silvery, translucent or transparent hairs with a spherical tip, 0.01-0.1 mm, the color varies, they can be from white, greenish to brown, black-brown. Attached to the carrier by filamentous translucent sporangiophores (sporangiophores) up to 2-6 centimeters long.
Edibility
Inedible
Season and distribution
Spinellus bristly parasitizes other fungi, so it can be found throughout the mushroom season. Most often it parasitizes on mycenes, and of all mycenes it prefers blood-legged Mycene.
Photo: from questions in recognition.
