Atheniella

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Atheniella
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Atheniella adonis
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Cyphellaceae
Genus: Atheniella
Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys, Desjardin, B.A.Perry (2012)
Type species
Atheniella adonis
(Bull.) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys, Desjardin, B.A.Perry (2012)
Species

Atheniella adonis
Atheniella amabillissima
Atheniella aurantiidisca
Atheniella flavoalba
Atheniella leptophylla [1]

Atheniella is an agaric fungal genus that produces mostly brightly colored (yellow, pink, orange, or red) mycenoid fruit bodies on small plant debris on forest floors, in fields and bogs. [2] It is not a member of the Mycenaceae, [3] [4] [5] and unlike most Mycenaceae, its basidiospores and tissues do not react with iodine. Atheniella species were most recently classified in Mycena because of their stature. However, they lack amyloid spores and tissues bewildering taxonomists, leading to temporary placements in Hemimycena and Marasmiellus before being phylogenetically excluded from both genera and the Mycenaceae. [3] Most recently the genus has been classified in the Porotheleaceae. [6] Currently 12 species are recognized. [7]

Etymology

The name Atheniella alludes to Greek goddess Athena due to her connection to Mycenaean Greece. Mycena is a closely related genus. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Gminder A (2016). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum. 302: 1. ISSN   2049-2375.
  2. ↑ Læssøe T, Petersen JH (2019). Fungi of Temperate Europe Vol 1. Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691180373.
  3. 1 2 Moncalvo JM, Vilgalys R, Redhead SA, Johnson JE, James TY, Catherine Aime M, Hofstetter V, Verduin SJ, Larsson E, Baroni TJ, Greg Thorn R, Jacobsson S, Clémençon H, Miller OK (2002). "One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 23 (3): 357–400. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00027-1. PMID   12099793.
  4. ↑ Aronsen A, Larsson E (2016). "Studier i släktet Mycena - 2. Mycena floridula –en färgvariant av Mycena flavoalba (gulvit hätta)". Svensk Mykologisk Tidsk. 37 (3): 26–31.
  5. ↑ Cooper J (2016). "NZ species in Mycenella, Hemimycena, Atheniella and Mycena pp.(suborder Marasmineae incertae sedis" (PDF). Mycological Notes. 33.
  6. ↑ Matheny PB, Hughes KW, Kalichman J, Lebeuf, R (2020). "Pulverulina, a New Genus of Agaricales for Clitocybe ulmicola". Southeastern Naturalist. 19 (3): 447–459. doi:10.1656/058.019.0301. S2CID   222001684.
  7. ↑ Ge Y, Liu Z, Zeng H, Cheng X, Na Q (2021). "Updated description of Atheniella (Mycenaceae, Agaricales), including three new species with brightly coloured pilei from Yunnan Province, southwest China". MycoKeys. 81: 139–164. doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.81.67773 . PMC   8295246 . PMID   34305422.
  8. ↑ Redhead SA. (2012). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum. 14: 1. ISSN   2049-2375.
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