Baeospora myosura

Baeospora myosura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Cyphellaceae
Genus:	Baeospora
Species:	B. myosura
Binomial name
Baeospora myosura (Fr.) Singer (1938) [1]

Baeospora myosura
Mycological characteristics
	Gills on hymenium
	Cap is convex
	Hymenium is adnexed
	Stipe is bare
	Spore print is white to cream
	Ecology is saprotrophic
	Edibility is unknown

Baeospora myosura, commonly known as conifercone cap, is a species of fungus that produces agaricoid fruit bodies. The cap is convex before flattening, 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) wide, and coloured pale brown to cream. ^[2] The lamellae are adnexed, pale, and very close. ^[2] The spore print is white to cream and amyloid.

The mushroom grows on decaying conifer cones and is common in North America ^[2] and Europe. It is nonpoisonous but of unknown edibility. ^[3]

References

1. Singer R. (1938). "Notes sur quelques Basidiomycetes". Revue de Mycologie (in French). 3: 187–99.
2. Audubon (2023). Mushrooms of North America. Knopf. p. 436. ISBN   978-0-593-31998-7.
3. Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 136. ISBN   978-0-7627-3109-1.