Leucocoprinus zeylanicus

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Leucocoprinus zeylanicus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Leucocoprinus
Species:
L. zeylanicus
Binomial name
Leucocoprinus zeylanicus
(Berk) Boedijn (1940)
Synonyms

Agaricus zeylanicus Berk (1847)
Mastocephalus zeylanicus Kuntze (1891)

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Leucocoprinus zeylanicus
Information icon.svg
Gills icon.png Gills on hymenium
Campanulate cap icon.svgUmbonate cap icon.svg Cap is campanulate or umbonate
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 zeylanicus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae. [1] [2]

Taxonomy

It was first described in 1847 by the British mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley who classified it as Agaricus zeylanicus. [3]

In 1891 it was classified as Mastocephalus zeylanicus by the German botanist Otto Kunze, [4] 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 an Agaricus.

In 1940 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus zeylanicus by the Dutch mycologist Karel Bernard Boedijn. [5]

Description

Leucocoprinus zeylanicus is a small dapperling mushroom.

Cap: Around 8cm wide. Campanulate (bell shaped) with an umbo in the centre and striations at the edges. Gills: Free. Stem: Smooth with a narrow stem ring. [3] Spores: 7.5-9x4.5-6.5 μm. [6]

Habitat and distribution

L. zeylanicus is scarcely recorded and little known however it is reported to be a very common species in the Western Ghats ranges of India. In 2003 a mushroom survey conducted at the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, in Kerala state, India observed this species growing on the campus. It was found scattered or in groups on the forest floor and in flower beds in the garden which had been well fertilised with manure as well as on cow dung itself and occasionally on the bark of living trees. [6]

Berkeley described the mushroom from a garden in Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) in 1844. [3] Many of his observations were conducted in this area so it is possible that they were in or around the vicinity of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, [7] which were founded in 1843. [8]

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References

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