Mycena olida
Encyclopedia
Mycena olida, commonly known as the rancid bonnet, is a species of mushroom
in the Mycenaceae
family. It was first described in 1887 by Italian mycologist Giacomo Bresadola
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, initially conical to convex in shape, flattens out with age and typically reaches diameters of up to 1.5 cm (0.590551181102362 in).
Mushroom
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...
in the Mycenaceae
Mycenaceae
The Mycenaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi , the family contains 10 genera and 705 species. This is one of several families that were separated from the Tricholomataceae as a result of phylogenetic analyses...
family. It was first described in 1887 by Italian mycologist Giacomo Bresadola
Giacomo Bresadola
Giacomo Bresadola 14 February 1847 – Trento 9 June 1929) was an eminent Italian mycologist. Fungi he named include the deadly Lepiota helveola and Inocybe patouillardii, though the latter is now known as Inocybe erubescens as this latter description predated Bresadola's by a year...
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Description
The capPileus (mycology)
The pileus is the technical name for the cap, or cap-like part, of a basidiocarp or ascocarp that supports a spore-bearing surface, the hymenium. The hymenium may consist of lamellae, tubes, or teeth, on the underside of the pileus...
, initially conical to convex in shape, flattens out with age and typically reaches diameters of up to 1.5 cm (0.590551181102362 in).