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This species has a neotropical distribution and is found in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil, where it usually occurs at altitudes between 1700 and 3000 m. It is a saprotrophic species which mostly grows on soil in pasture. It is an edible fungus used by rural communities, for instance in various municipalities of the department of Boyacá (Colombia).
Macrolepiota colombiana Franco-Mol.

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Conservation
Unassessed.
Distribution
Neotropical. In Colombia found in: Cogua (Cundinamarca), La Ceja (Antioquia), Chiquinquirá (Boyacá), La Florida (Nariño). Alt. 1700–3000 m.
Ecology
On soil, in meadows. Saprotroph.
Morphology
Solitary. Pileus: 4–12 cm diam., convex, plane to umbonate; surface dry, entire at the center, breaking into large to small scales or areolate to finely granulose toward the margin, center areolae, brown on white blackground; margin entire or splitting radially toward the center, inrolled. Context: white, slowly changing to grayish-red when exposed. Hymenophore: lamellate, free, close, thick, white, unchanging. Stipe: up to 15 cm long, central, bulbous, strict to curved; surface dry, smooth to rugulose, glabrous to finely velutinous, brown except at the base which is white. Basal mycelium: scattered, white, cottony. Annulus: superior, double, white and membranous on the innerside, tough and concolorous with the stipe, becoming moveable with age. Odor: very strong of cabbage. Taste: indistinct. Spore print: white. Spores: broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, dextrinoid.
Vernacular
Lechucitas (Spanish)

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Use Food Mushrooms
Part used: Basidiome. In Boyacá, Colombia, the species is used as edible by rural communities in the municipality of Chiquinquirá (Boyacá). They prepare it roasted with salt.

Present in:

Colombia, Costa Rica

Macrolepiota colombiana Franco-Mol. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Actualid. biol., 21 (no. 70): 14 (1999)

Literature

Catalogue of Fungi of Colombia

  • Franco-Molano, A. E. (1999). A new species of Macrolepiota from Colombia. Actualidades Biológicas, 21 (70), 13–17.
  • Franco-Molano, A. E., Aldana, R., & Halling, R. (2000) Setas de Colombia. Guía de campo. Medellín, Colombia: Universidad de Antioquía. 156 p.
  • Nguyen, N.H., Song, Z., Bates, S.T., Branco, S., Tedersoo, L., Menke, J., Schilling, J.S. and Kennedy, P.G., 2016. FUNGuild: an open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild. Fungal Ecology, 20, pp.241-248.
  • Peña-Cañón, E. R., & Henao-Mejía, L. G. (2014) Conocimiento y uso tradicional de hongos silvestres de las comunidades campesinas asociadas a bosques de roble (Quercus humboldtii) en la zona de influencia de la Laguna de Fúquene, Andes Nororientales. Etnobiología, 12, 28–40.
  • Quiroga, A. Y., & Supelano, G. W. (2019). Aporte a la diversidad de macrohongos (Ascomycetes y Basidiomycetes) presentes en el sendero ecológico de la quebrada las Delicias. (Chapinero, Bogotá D.C). Tesis de grado, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Facultad de Ciencas y Educación, Bogotá D.C. 142 p.
  • Vasco-Palacios, A. M., & Franco-Molano, A. E. (2013) Diversity of Colombian macrofungi (Ascomycota - Basidiomycota). Mycotaxon 121: 1-58. http://mycotaxon.com/resources/checklists/VascoPalacios-v121-checklist.pdf

Catalogue of Fungi of Colombia
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