| Calonarius | |
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| Calonarius elegantior | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Cortinariaceae |
| Genus: | Calonarius Niskanen & Liimat. (2022) |
| Type species | |
| Calonarius typicus | |
Calonarius is a genus of fungi in the family Cortinariaceae. [1]
The genus was created in 2022 when the family Cortinariaceae, which previously in then-recent phylogenetic studies contained only the one genus of Cortinarius , [note 1] was reclassified based on genomic data and split into the genera of Cortinarius, Aureonarius , Austrocortinarius , Calonarius, Cystinarius , Hygronarius , Mystinarius , Phlegmacium , Thaxterogaster and Volvanarius . [2]
The genus is further divided with subgenus and section classifications: [2]
The name Calonarius derives from the combination of the genus name Cortinarius and the section name Calochroi in which these species were placed prior to the reclassification. [2]
As of January 2023, Species Fungorum accepted 133 species of Calonarius. [3]