Waxy Cap Mushrooms, Hygrophoraceae, are fleshy, often edible
Mushrooms that form mycorrhizal associations (associations between Fungi
and
Plants in which the Fungus receives sugars produced by the Plant and the
Plant receives nutrients obtained from the soil from the Fungus) with a
variety of forest trees, including both Broadleaved and Coniferous
species; each species of Fungus typically forms associations with a
single species of tree. These Fungi are found in woodland around the
world, from tropical forests to the boreal forests of the subpolar
regions. Members of the genus Gliophorus are noted for the production of rather slimey Mushrooms.
In a paper published in the journal MycoKeys on 21 December 2018, Dyutiparna Chakraborty and Kanad Das of the Botanical Survey of India, and Alfredo Vizzini of the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology at the University of Torino, describe a new species of Gliophorus from Sikkim State in northeast India.
The new species is named Gliophorus glutinosus, where 'glutinosus' means 'glutinous'. This species produces small mushrooms, 5-20 mm in diameter, convex in shape with a small central depression, and greyish or brownish orange in colour, on stipes (stems) up to 60 mm high. The species was found growing in a mixed deciduous woodland in Sikkim's South District. at an altitude of 1962 m above sealevel.
Gliophorus glutinosus, Mushrooms in natural habitat. Chakraborty et al. (2018).
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