Kurttujuurekas

Foodplant / saprobe
deeply rooting fruitbody of Xerula radicata is saprobic on dead, decaying stump of Broadleaved trees
Remarks: season: mid-summer onwards

Gymnopus radicatus (Relhan) Murrill
Agaricus longipes Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 232. 1784. Not A. longipes Scop. 1772, Agaricus radicatus Relhan, Fl. Cantabr. Suppl. 28. 1786. Gymnopus longipes Roussel, Fl. Calvados ed. 2. 62. 1806. Clitocybe megalospora Clements, Bot. Surv. Neb. 4: 18. 1896.
Pileus fleshy but thin, convex or nearly plane, sometimes somewhat umbonate, 2.5-7.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, viscid or even glutinous when moist, often radiately wrinkled in the center, varying in color from grayish-brown to dark-brown, sometimes almost white: context white; lamellae broad, subdistant, adnexed: spores ellipsoid, with a slight, oblique apiculus at one end, 15-17.5 X 10-12.5 /x: stipe long, firm, glabrous, furfuraceous in one variety, colored like or paler than the pileus, at length striate or grooved, stuffed, slightly tapering upward, ending in a long, root-like extension which penetrates the earth deeply, 10-20 cm. or more long, 4r~6 mm. thick.
Type i^ocality: England.
Habitat: In woods and bushy places, generally about stumps, attached to buried roots.
DistrebuTion: Maine to Alabama and west to Nebraska and Kansas' also in Europe
, >7c ^i'^^:?^J'^"?.^^= ^S"^^'i?' ^™F^^gi/^^' Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 232, 515; Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric. 175: Pl^2,f ->/ Conn State Geol & Nat. Hist. Surv. 3: pi. 6; Hussey, 111. Brit. Myc. l: pL 36;Mycologia 6: pL 137, f. 1. pi. 138; Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 3: pi. 48; Sow. Bngl Fungi U 48

Hymenopellis radicata, commonly known as the deep root mushroom or the rooting shank, is a widespread agaric readily identified by its deeply rooted stalk (stipe).