Laccaria_amethysteo-occidentalis

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Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis

Species of fungus

Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis is a mushroom found under conifers, usually pine, growing alone, scattered or gregariously in western North America.[2]

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Description

The cap is 1–7 cm in width.[3]

The gills are purple.[4] The mushroom is edible.[1]

Spores are 7.5–10.5 x 7–16 µm, subglobose or broadly elliptical. The spore print is white.

Similar species

This species is similar to L. amethystina but differs by occurring than hard wood forest and in Eastern North America, rather than conifers forest; having a smaller sporocarp; and being a lighter purple color.[citation needed] L. bicolor is smaller and less purplish; L. laccata has whitish mycelium at its base.[5] Cortinarius violaceus is darker and has a less fibrillose stipe.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
  2. [2]
    Muller, 1984.
  3. [3]
    Michael Wood & Fred Stevens (2015). "California Fungi—Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis". Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  4. [4]
    Michael Kuo (2015). "Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis". Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  5. [5]
    Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.

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