Galerina vittiformis (Fr.) Singer 1950

Plant / associate
fruitbody of Galerina vittiformis is associated with Bryopsida

Plant / associate
fruitbody of Galerina vittiformis is associated with Poaceae

Galerula hypni (Batsch) Murrill
Agaricus Hypni Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 1: 117. 1786.
Agaricus hypnorum Schrank, Baier. Fl. 2: 605. 1789.
Agaricus bryorum Lasch, Linnaea 3: 416. 1828.
Galera hypnorum Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 105. 1872.
Galera bryorum Quel. Fl. Myc. Fr. 78. 1888.
Galera bryophila Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54: 149. 1901.
Conocybe hypnorum Murrill, Mycologia 4: 75. 1912.
Conocybe bryorum Murrill, Mycologia 4: 247. 1912.
Pileus thin, membranous, subconic or campanulate, obtuse or papillate, 5-15 mm. broad;
surface glabrous, hygrophanous, watery-cinnamon or subochraceous and striatulate when
moist, becoming paler when dry, often fading to yellowish or buff, margin usually striate;
lamellae thin, broad, distant, adnate, ventricose, white or whitish, becoming ochraceous-
yellow, often whitish-floccose on the edges; spores ovoid, pointed, smooth, uniguttulate,
8-12 X 5-7 m; cystidia flask-shaped, 40-45 fi long, 8-10 p thick at the base; stipe slender,
flexuous, hollow, smooth or slightly silky-fibrillose, downy or pruinose at the apex, with a
white mycelioid tomentum at the base, whitish or pallid, varying to fuliginous, 2.5-5 cm. long,
about 1 mm. thick; veil slight, evanescent.
Type locality: Germany.
Habitat: Among mosses or grasses in shaded places.
Distribution: Throughout temperate North America, and in the mountains of Mexico and

Galerina vittiformis is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae, and the type species of the genus Galerina. It is widely distributed in temperate regions, where it typically grows in moist locations, often among mosses. The fungus has been shown to bioaccumulate various heavy metal from contaminated soil.