Coprotus glaucellus (Rehm) Kimbr.
no common name
Thelebolaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Thelebolaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include a disc-shaped to lens-shaped, translucent to white fruiting body up to 0.12cm across, and growth on dung of deer, goat, moose, porcupine and rabbit. The description is derived from Kimbrough(1) who says it is one of the most common of the discomycetes living on dung.
Microscopic:
spores 7.5-9 x 4.5-5.5 microns, elliptic, 1-seriate to 2-seriate, each with 1 de Bary bubble; asci 8-spored, 40-55 x 8-12 microns, cylindric, rounded in upper part, narrowed in lower part, ending on a short stem; paraphyses filiform [thread-like], colorless, septate, strongly uncinate [hooked] at apices, 1.5 microns in lower part, slightly wider in upper part, without oil droplets
Notes:
Coprotus glaucellus is found in ON, FL, MI, NJ, NY, CO, Europe, and Mexico, (Kimbrough), and BC and CO, (Larsen).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Coprotus lacteus (eastern North America, Europe) has white fruiting bodies 0.02-0.05cm across, but asci are 65-84 microns long, and paraphyses are slightly inflated in the upper part and only somewhat hooked.Habitat
scattered to gregarious on dung of deer, goat, moose, porcupine, and rabbit