2011-11-05 Lower Austria, district Mdling, Wienerwald - Speckherrnstein (560 msm Quadrant 7863/3).German name: SpechttintlingSynonyms:
Agaricus picaceus, Coprinus picaceus (
Index Fungorum - Species Fungorum) (and also, erroneously,
Coprinopsis picaceus).Caps of this one dissolves when spores are mature: it is a process of autodigestion of lamellae in order to release the spores.
Coprinopsis was split off from
Coprinus as a consequence of molecular phylogenetic findings that it is no closer relative of
Coprinus.See also distant relative
Coprinus comatus.Other species - habitat of
Coprinopsis picacea:Acer pseudoplatanus, Carpinus betulus, Fraxinus excelsior, Acer platanoides (leaves of trees); Cyclamen purpurascens (leaves of herbaceous plants).