Gymnopilus maritimus
Gymnopilus maritimus is a fungus species of the family Cortinariaceae first collected in northern Sardinia, Italy, in 2006. The species produces moderately sized, sturdy mushrooms of a reddish-orange colour. The cap, which can measure up to 70 millimetres across, is covered in orange fibrils, and sometimes has small scales.
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Gymnopilus maritimus is a fungus species of the family Cortinariaceae first collected in northern Sardinia, Italy, in 2006. The species produces moderately sized, sturdy mushrooms of a reddish-orange colour. The cap, which can measure up to 70 millimetres across, is covered in orange fibrils, and sometimes has small scales. The mushrooms have thick gills of a variable colour, ranging from yellow to rust but staining darker, and the yellow flesh has a mild taste. It is most similar in appearance to G.arenophilus and G. fulgens, but can be differentiated from both morphologically. However, it is not closely related to either, suggesting convergent evolution. It has been found only on coastal sand dunes near Olbia, in Sardinia. There is speculation that it may also grow elsewhere in Europe. It forms a sister group to the spectabilis–imperialis clade, a clade that includes G. imperialis, G.junonius and others. As a saprotrophic feeder, it may be able to grow on other substrates, such as sandy soil or decomposing plants.
The holotype has been deposited in the University of Granada’s herbarium. It produces the smallest fruit bodies, while it shares with the other members of the clade with strong, sturdy caps and large, warty spores that turn red in Melzer’s reagent or iodine’s Lugol’s. The specific epithet maritimus refers to the typical habitat of coastal Sand dunes, on sandy soil and decomposing Juncus Maritimus. The spores themselves measure from 7. 5–11. 5 micrometres in length. The margin of the cap is somewhat wavey in the centre, with a broad, dry and dull, red-orange, dull and yellow towards the edge. There are sometimes a broad umbo, and older specimens, in which the centre is depressed in the depressed centre in the older specimens. The mushroom has a yellowish stem that measures up to 110 mm in length by 8 mm in width and sometimes shows remnants of the partial veil.
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