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Asterophora lycoperdoides (Powdery Piggyback)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Asterophora lycoperdoides is a species of fungus in the Lyophyllaceae family. It grows as a parasite on other mushrooms, mainly Russulas. Its gills are poorly formed or nearly absent. Asexual spores are produced on the mushrooms cap which enable the organism to clone itself easily. The spores are star shaped hence the name Star bearer.
View Wikipedia Record: Asterophora lycoperdoides

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Borrowdale Woodland Complex 1650 England, United Kingdom
Naddle Forest 892 England, United Kingdom  
North Pennine Moors 254789 England, United Kingdom

Providers

Parasite of 
Lactarius vellereus (fleecy milk-cap)[1]
Russula adusta (Blackening Brittlegill)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pyxidiophora asterophora[1]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0