Leucocoprinus russoceps

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Leucocoprinus russoceps
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Leucocoprinus
Species:
L. russoceps
Binomial name
Leucocoprinus russoceps
Raithelh. (1987)
Synonyms

Agaricus russoceps Berk & Broome (1871)
Lepiota russoceps Sacc. (1887)
Mastocephalus russoceps Kuntze (1891)

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Leucocoprinus russoceps
Information icon.svg
Gills icon.png Gills on hymenium
Campanulate cap icon.svgConvex cap icon.svg Cap is campanulate or convex
Free gills icon2.svg Hymenium is free
Ring stipe icon.svg Stipe has a ring
Transparent spore print icon.svg
Spore print is white
Saprotrophic fungus.svgEcology is saprotrophic
Mycomorphbox Question.pngEdibility is unknown

Leucocoprinus russoceps is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae. [1] [2]

Taxonomy

It was described in 1871 by the English botanists and mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome who classified it as Agaricus (Lepiota) russoceps. [3]

In 1887 it was reclassified as Lepiota russoceps by the Italian mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo [4] and then as Mastocephalus russoceps in 1891 by the German botanist Otto Kunze, [5] however Kunze's Mastocephalus genus, along with most of 'Revisio generum plantarum' was not widely accepted by the scientific community of the age so it remained a Lepiota.

In 1987 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus russoceps by the mycologist Jörg Raithelhuber. [6]

Description

Leucocoprinus russoceps is a small dapperling mushroom.

Cap: 1.5-2.5cm wide starting campanulate before flattening and expanding to convex. The surface is yellow-brown to ochre with a pulverulent, powdery coating and striations from the edges. Gills: Pale, 'almost free' and close. Stem: 4cm long and 1.5mm thick at the top with a claviform taper to 4mm wide at the base. The surface is paler than the cap sometimes with a slight greenish tint with age whilst the interior is stuffed with white flesh. The stem ring may disappear. Spores: Smooth, ovate to elliptic with a faint germ pore. 7.2-9 x 4.2-4.6 μm. [6]

Habitat and distribution

The specimens were found growing on the ground in forests in Brazil. [6]

The specimens studied by Berk and Broome were found on the ground in June 1860 in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). [3]

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References

  1. "Species fungorum - Leucocoprinus russoceps (Berk. & Broome) Raithelh., Metrodiana 15(2): 37 (1987)". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  2. "Mycobank Database - Leucocoprinus russoceps".
  3. 1 2 Berkeley, M. J.; Broome, C. E. (1871). "On the Fungi of Ceylon". The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 11. London : the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: 508.
  4. Saccardo, P. A.; Traverso, G. B.; Trotter, A. (1887). "Agaricineae, Leucosporse, Lepiota". Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. Vol. 5. Patavii: sumptibus auctoris. p. 63.
  5. Kuntze, Otto (1891). Revisio generum plantarum:vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum ... Vol. 2. Leipzig: A. Felix [etc.] p. 860.
  6. 1 2 3 "Die Gattung Leucocoprinus in Den A B C - Staaten". Metrodiana. 15 (2): 37. 10 August 1987.