When I was first learning about mushrooms, I had found a mycologist to whom I provided various mushrooms I found for identification. He told me many of the mushrooms I found were LBMs.
When I asked for the specific name of LBMs he told me the official mycological name of many mushrooms was 'Little Brown Mushrooms' because they were undescribed by science and very difficult to tell apart. He also told me some scientists suspect mushrooms are alien species because they are so different genetically from other kinds of living things.
This is a useful identification for me, because if I don't know it is a good, edible mushroom or something readily idenfiable, it is an LBM which I can admire for it's beauty, but not pick and eat.
Now this is a fascinating thought:
A good fiction writer would have gun with that.
Now I need to google this idea
I recall the work 'Omnivore' (cannot be sure of the author after 40 years, but I think it was Harry Harrison. It was of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, and that genre of authors, like Keith Laumer, Asimov, Ben Bova, John Campbell, Zelazny, Poulson, Dick, and the like), which was jacketed with a marvelous painting of a one limbed, hopping, cyclopian fungus that ruled some planet or other.
Enjoy!
I am expert at finding lbms. They are also my nemesis.
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