Ringless honey mushroom
Desarmillaria caespitosa
A clustering, wood-associated fungus whose North American taxonomic treatment was revisited in a 2021 study. This introductory draft keeps source-based natural history separate from identification and safe-use decisions.
- Family
- Physalacriaceae
- Regional status
- Not assessed
- Habitat
- Wood and buried woody material
- Safety
- Not evaluated
- Regional map
- Pending
A closer look.
The Missouri Department of Conservation describes clustered fruiting bodies associated with trees, stumps or buried woody material. A 2021 study used collections from the United States and Mexico, together with morphological evidence and five gene regions, to distinguish Desarmillaria caespitosa from European D. tabescens. This taxonomic result is not a field-identification shortcut.
Antonín and colleagues, Mycologia 113(4):776–790 (2021); USDA Forest Service repository ↗ · Missouri Department of Conservation ↗ · iNaturalist Research-grade Observations via GBIF ↗
This source-linked working account awaits independent specialist review. Linked references and their scope are available in Sources. Source comparison does not confirm identity, safety or regional coverage.
Through the seasons
No observation-season tags assigned. Missouri timing in the cited field guide is not a forecast for the New York observation or wider North America.
Knowledge has a context.
Historical accounts are presented as attributed records, not endorsed practices, medical advice, or permission to harvest.
No historical-use account has been prepared. Future cultural narratives require traceable community attribution and appropriate review; no medicinal or preparation advice is included.
Read the regional account.
The regional field-guide account concerns Missouri; the imported community observation separately reports New York. The taxonomic paper abstract refers to collections from the USA and Mexico. These statements are not a complete range map or evidence of current local presence. Regional classification and specimen mapping remain pending.
Wood and buried woody material
This regional account uses the linked botanical and mycological references. Broader range statements do not mean every jurisdiction has a completed profile, mapped records, or local review. No specimen map is supplied for this record.
Antonín and colleagues, Mycologia 113(4):776–790 (2021); USDA Forest Service repository ↗ · Missouri Department of Conservation ↗ · iNaturalist Research-grade Observations via GBIF ↗
A written range.
A map still to come.
This profile has a source-linked distribution account. A regional specimen snapshot has not yet been assembled. Unmapped areas do not imply absence, and this account does not establish a collecting location.
Trace the record.
References are attached to specific parts of this record. A citation is a route to evidence; it is not a claim that every field has completed review.
- 01Desarmillaria caespitosa, a North American vicariant of D. tabescens ↗
Antonín and colleagues, Mycologia 113(4):776–790 (2021); USDA Forest Service repository
Supports: Repository abstract and citation read; US/Mexico collections and five-gene taxonomic separation. Full paper has not been reviewed.
- 02Ringless Honey Mushroom ↗
Missouri Department of Conservation
Supports: Missouri common-name/family and wood-substrate context. Edibility/preparation/lookalike instructions and restricted images are not reused.
- 03Desarmillaria caespitosa community observation, GBIF record 6500074636 ↗
iNaturalist Research-grade Observations via GBIF
Supports: One community observation reported in New York; not a preserved specimen, full range, current presence estimate or independently verified identification.