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Hundreds of species of mushrooms compose the genus Clitocybe. They are characterized by white spore prints, gills running down the stem, and pale white to brown or lilac coloration. They are primarily saprophytic, decomposing forest ground litter. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ...
Divisions Chytridiomycota Deuteromycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Fungus growing on a tree in Borneo A fungus (plural fungi) is a eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its cells. ...
Classes Subdivision Teliomycotina Urediniomycetes Subdivision Ustilaginomycotina Ustilaginomycetes Subdivision Hymenomycotina Homobasidiomycetes- mushrooms Heterobasidiomycetes- jelly fungi The Division Basidiomycota is a large taxon within the Kingdom Fungi that includes those species that produce spores in a club-shaped structure called a basidium. ...
former Orders Subclass Homobasidiomycetidae Agaricales Boletales Cantharellales Corticiales Ganodermatales Gomphales Hericiales Hydnales Hymenochaetales Polyporales (Aphyllophorales) Poriales Russulales Schizophyllales Stereales Thelephorales Subclass Gasteromycetidae Lycoperdales Nidulariales Phallales Sclerodermatales Tulostomatales The Class Homobasidiomycetes is a taxonomic division in the Subdivision Hymenomycotina of the Division Basidiomycota (in the Kingdom Fungi). ...
Hymenomycete are a type of fungi. ...
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Making a spore print of the mushroom Volvariella volvacea shown in composite: (photo lower half) mushroom cap laid on white and dark paper; (photo upper half) cap removed after 24 hours showing pinkish-tan spore print. ...
A Saprotroph (or saprobe) is an organism that obtains its nutrients from non-living organic matter, usually dead and decaying plant or animal matter, by absorbing soluble organic compounds. ...
A few members of the genus are considered edible; many others are poisonous, containing the toxin muscarine among others. Distinguishing individual species of Clitocybe is generally prohibitively difficult to non-experts, requiring the analysis of microscopic characters. Therefore, with the exception of a few charismatic and readily identified members, Clitocybe mushrooms are rarely collected for consumption. Muscarine, L-(+)-muscarine, or muscarin is a natural product found in certain mushrooms, particularly in Inocybe and Clitocybe species. ...
 A somewhat faded example of Clitocybe nuda A few examples from this genus include: - Clitocybe clavipes - may be edible but poisonous when consumed in conjunction with alcohol
- Clitocybe dilata
- Clitocybe eccentrica
- Clitocybe gibba
- Clitocybe gigantea
- Clitocybe glutiniceps
- Clitocybe maxima
- Clitocybe nuda - common name: blewit - a common edible distinguished in part by its lilac hue
- Clitocybe schlerotoidea
- Clitocybe squamulosa
The bioluminescent Jack O'Lantern mushroom was formerly placed in this genus as Clitocybe illudens. Bioluminescence is the production and emission of visible light by a living organism as the result of a chemical reaction during which chemical energy is converted to light energy. ...
Binomial name Omphalotus olearius (DC. ex Fr. ...
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Mushroom hunting (or mushrooming) is the activity of searching for mushrooms in the wild, typically for consumption. ...
These emerging mushrooms are too immature to safely identify as edible or toxic. ...
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References Bessette, A. E., Roody, W. C. & Bessette, A. R. (2000). North American boletes: A color guide to the fleshy pored mushrooms. China: Syracuse UP. 399 pp.
Bruns, T. D. & Palmer, J. D. (1989). Evolution of mushroom mitochondrial DNA: Suillus and related genera. Journal of Molecular Evolution 28: 349-362.
Smith, A. H., Smith, H. V. & Weber, N. S. (1981). How to know the non-gilled mushrooms. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown. 324 pp.
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