Agaricaceae
Macrolepiota

Macrolepiota colombiana Franco-Mol.

First published in Actualid. biol., 21 (no. 70): 14 (1999)
This species is accepted
This species is found in Colombia and Costa Rica. It is used for food.

Descriptions

Morphology
Solitary. Pileus: 4–12 cm diam., convex, plane to umbonate; surface dry, entire at the center, breaking into large to small scales or areolate to finely granulose toward the margin, center areolae, brown on white blackground; margin entire or splitting radially toward the center, inrolled. Context: white, slowly changing to grayish-red when exposed. Hymenophore: lamellate, free, close, thick, white, unchanging. Stipe: up to 15 cm long, central, bulbous, strict to curved; surface dry, smooth to rugulose, glabrous to finely velutinous, brown except at the base which is white. Basal mycelium: scattered, white, cottony. Annulus: superior, double, white and membranous on the innerside, tough and concolorous with the stipe, becoming moveable with age. Odor: very strong of cabbage. Taste: indistinct. Spore print: white. Spores: broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, dextrinoid.
summary
This species has a neotropical distribution and is found in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil, where it usually occurs at altitudes between 1700 and 3000 m. It is a saprotrophic species which mostly grows on soil in pasture. It is an edible fungus used by rural communities, for instance in various municipalities of the department of Boyacá (Colombia).
Vernacular
Lechucitas (Spanish)
Habit
Solitary.
Distribution
Neotropics. Altitude: 1700 – 3000 m a.s.l. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Nariño.
Ecology
Saprotroph. - Soil saprotroph. Habitat/ecology: on soil, in meadows.
[CFC]

Uses

Use Food Mushrooms
Part used: Basidiome. In Boyacá, Colombia, the species is used as edible by rural communities in the municipality of Chiquinquirá (Boyacá). They prepare it roasted with salt.
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Sources

  • Catalogue of Fungi of Colombia

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