Mushroom Collections

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Cantharocybe virosa
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Common Name: none

Pileus – 51 x 35 mm diameter, convex to broadly convex, light brown to grayish brown, central part darker in color, initially inrolled margin then later turns into incurved to straight when mature and gills sub-distant

Stipe – 39 mm long, solid, cylindrical, centrally or eccentrically attached to the pileus

Spores - white spore print

Ecology - saprobic, on leaf litter or soil, solitary

Edibility - Poisonous

Occurrence - Lingap Kalikasan, CLSU Campus

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