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Rooting shanks
1 species
Wood-decaying mushrooms with a long taproot-like stem base that reaches buried wood, thick white gills and a white spore print. The genus includes species formerly placed in Xerula and Oudemansiella, such as H. radicata (Europe) and H. furfuracea (eastern North America).
Cap often wrinkled and sticky or greasy; gills thick, white, well spaced; stem with a deep taproot (pseudorhiza) to buried wood; spore print white; spores relatively large.
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