“…exposure to mineral oil fumes or mechanical damage to the partial veil (velum partiale) of developing primordia) that results in large hordes of malformed mushrooms with split stipes and with mis-shaped and -located lamella and caps and even convoluted pore-like hymenia ('lamellar dysplasia') on the pileus surface (Magnus, 1906;Stamets and Chilton, 1983;Flegg and Wood, 1985;Umar and Van Griensven, 1999;Noble et al, 2003). Elevated CO 2 concentrations lead in the agaric Pleurotus ostreatus and allies to size reductions and deformations of caps and to elongated stipes, eventually also to thickened plump short stipes with cap rudiments (Kinugawa et al, 1994;Jang et al, 2003;Kong, 2004). Slender elongated stipes with reduced pilei were also observed under higher CO 2 concentrations in cultures of other agarics including the edible A. bisporus (Stoller, 1952;Turner, 1977;Flegg and Wood, 1985), Flammulina velutipes (Kinugawa et al, 1994), Hypholoma capnoides (Gramss, 1978), and Lentinula edodes (Jablonsk y, 1981), as well as of stipitate-pileate polypores (Plunkett, 1956).…”