Galerina sp.
1 Kambah, ACT
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| Galerina sp. | Heino | 4 Sep 2017 | |
| Unverified | MatthewFrawley | 6 Aug 2017 |
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User's notes
About 1cm tall
1 comment
4 Sep 2017
Given the size and overall appearance Galerina is a plausible suggestion for this sighting, though there are several other genera of small, brown mushrooms. Thank you for the view of the underside, which shows that each gill has a white, fringed edge. In this genus, there are elongated, colourless cells along the gill edge and, though you’ll only see those cells under a microscope, in mass they give the gill edge that whitish, uneven, fringed look. Galerina is not the only genus to have such cells, so by itself a fringed gill edge is not conclusive evidence, but it is very useful additional evidence in favour of Galerina.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.072369-35.376469
- Maps Mount Taylor
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 6 Aug 2017 01:17 PM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
Collections
- MatthewFrawley Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Galerina sp. Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] Fungi
Species information
- Galerina sp. Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 979m Recorded at altitude