Calathella

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Calathella
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Marasmiaceae
Genus: Calathella
D.A. Reid
Type species
Calathella eruciformis
(P. Micheli ex Batsch) D.A. Reid
Species

C. albolivida
C. columbiana
C. dichroa
C. digitiformis
C. ellisii
C. eruciformis
C. gayana
C. mangrovei
C. sirindhorniae

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Synonyms

1951 Flagelloscypha Donk

Calathella is a genus of fungi in the mushroom family Marasmiaceae. [1]

Description

The genus contains fungi that produce small tubular or cup-shaped cyphelloid fruit bodies. The fruit bodies are characterized by encrusted surface hairs with rounded tips, uniform basidia (swollen at the base), and spores that range in shape from oblong-elliptical to cylindrical. [2]

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by the English mycologist Derek Reid in 1964. [3] According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the genus contains nine species found in Europe and North America. [1]

In 2025, a new mangrove-associated species of Calathella was described in Thailand and named C. sirindhorniae after princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p.  110. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ↑ Sulzbacher MA, Desjardin DE, Putzke J (2008). "Calathella columbiana (Basidiomycota): new record of a cyphelloid fungus from Brazil". Mycotaxon. 105: 37–42.
  3. ↑ Reid DA. (1964). "Notes on some fungi of Michigan-I. Cyphellaceae". Persoonia. 3 (1): 97–154.
  4. ↑ Lueangjaroenkit, Piyangkun; Sahathippayakul, Ananya; Supapongsri, Vassana; Aowpitak, Thithawat; Sangrattanaprasert, Jiroat; Ngernsaengsaruay, Chatchai; Pinruan, Umpawa (2025-11-17). "Calathella sirindhorniae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota), A New Cyphelloid Fungus from Thailand". Tropical Natural History (8): 460–471. doi:10.58837/tnh.25.8.267354. ISSN   2586-9892.
  5. ↑ Pskhun (2025-12-18). "Species New to Science: [Fungi • 2025] Calathella sirindhorniae (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) • A New Cyphelloid Fungus from Thailand". Species New to Science. Retrieved 2025-12-19.


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