Cyptotrama nivea

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Cyptotrama nivea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae
Genus: Cyptotrama
Species:
C. nivea
Binomial name
Cyptotrama nivea
Singer (1989)
Cyptotrama nivea
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Gills icon.png Gills on hymenium
Convex cap icon.svg Cap is convex
Free gills icon2.svg Hymenium is free
Bare stipe icon.svg Stipe is bare
Saprotrophic fungus.svgEcology is saprotrophic
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Cyptotrama nivea also known as Cyptotrama niveum is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae. [1] [2]

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Taxonomy

It was described in 1989 by the German mycologist Rolf Singer who classified it as Cyptotrama niveum [3] however this is now regarded as an orthographic variant and the species is now called Cyptotrama nivea. [2]

Description

Cyptotrama nivea is a very small snow white mushroom with white, unchanging flesh. [3]

Cap: 5mm wide and obtusely convex. The surface is snow white and finely frosted (pruinose) or finely hairy/woolly (sub-tomentose). Gills: Subdecurrent to decurrent, moderately crowded and white. Stem: 1.6cm wide and 1.3mm thick, running equally along the length. The surface is white with a silky, downy coating and a tomentose base. Spores: Ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, non-amyloid. 10.5-16.8 x 6.7-9.3 μm. Basidia: 25-31 x 8-13 μm. Four spored. Smell: Indistinct. [3]

Etymology

The specific epithet nivea or niveum derives from the Latin niveus meaning as white as snow. [4]

Habitat and distribution

The specimens studied by Singer were found growing solitary on fallen leaves in Igapó forests along the Igarapé Tarumãzinho river in Brazil. [3]

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References

  1. "Species fungorum - Cyptotrama nivea". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  2. 1 2 "Mycobank Database - Cyptotrama nivea".
  3. 1 2 3 4 Singer, Rolf (1989). "New taxa and new combinations of Agaricales : (Diagnoses fungorum novorum Agaricalium IV)". Fieldiana. Chicago, Ill: Field Museum of Natural History. 21: 91 via www.biodiversitylibrary.org.
  4. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). Latin for Gardeners (PDF). University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0-226-00919-3.