Geastrum fornicatum (Huds.) Hook.
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common name(s) : Arched Earthstar
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Phallomycetidae/Geastrales/Geastraceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Lycoperdales/Gaestraceae
edibility : inedible
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The fruiting body is star-shaped, with 4 pointed rays, long and narrow, their tip connected to the tip of 4 other rays lying on the ground, smaller and larger (like a vault), and at its centre, a brown spore sac placed on top of a short stalk, brown, with a very short stem.
The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature.
The spore print is black-brown.
It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, on sandy soils.
The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: |
width of fruiting body approximately 3.5 cm (between 1 and 8.5 cm) |
| total height approximately 2 cm (between 1 and 3 cm) |
Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet
Geastrum fornicatum is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Geastrum fornicatum in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18