Snow-white dung beetle (Coprinus niveus)

Systematika:
  • Diviziona: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Fizarana: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Kilasy: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Kilasy: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Karazana: Agaricales (Agarika na Lamellar)
  • Fianakaviana: Psathyrellaceae (Psatyrellaceae)
  • Karazana: Coprinopsis (Koprinopsis)
  • Type: Coprinopsis nivea (Snow white dung beetle)

Sary sy famaritana ny voangory fotsy (Coprinopsis nivea).

Voangory tain-drongony fotsy (Ny t. Coprinopsis nivea) is a fungus of the Psathyrellaceae family. Inedible.

It grows on horse manure or nearby among wet grass. Season summer – autumn.

The cap is 1-3 cm in ∅, at first, then becomes or, until almost flat with edges bent upwards. The skin is pure white, covered with an abundant powdery coating (the rest of the bedspread), which is washed off by rain.

The flesh of the cap is very thin. Leg 5-8 cm long and 1-3 mm in ∅, white, with mealy surface, swollen at the base.

The plates are free, frequent, first gray, then blacken and liquefy. Spore powder is black, spores are 15×10,5×8 µm, flattened-ellipsoidal, slightly hexagonal in shape, smooth, with pores.

Olatra.

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