Desert EarthStar

Description:

This gasteroid fungus has the exoperidium in rays, the number of rays can variate between species even between collections. This one, has a very hygroscopic rays, so, when is very dry, it closes so protect the endoperidium, and when there's humidity in the air (or is raining) the exoperidium opens so it looks like a star. The mouths is fibrillose, it doesn't have a stipe, and the gleba is dark brown with verrucosum spores. No capilitium.

Habitat:

Semiarid zones and arid zones. It grows under big threes where it founds a good microhabitat (away from sun, less heat and more humidity).

Notes:

Can be mistaken with G. floridanum, but this one has folds in the mouth.